Virtualization - Jul 2014 - CFP: 7th IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2014 @ IEEE/ACM SC14

Call for Papers

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The 7th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers
(MTAGS) 2014
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/
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November 16th, 2014
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14)
In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC

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7th workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS)
will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for presenting new
research, development, and deployment efforts of large-scale many-task computing
(MTC) applications on large scale clusters, Grids, Supercomputers, and Cloud
Computing infrastructure. MTC, the theme of the workshop encompasses loosely
coupled applications, which are generally composed of many tasks (both
independent and dependent tasks) to achieve some larger application goal.  This
workshop will cover challenges that can hamper efficiency and utilization in
running applications on large-scale systems, such as local resource manager
scalability and granularity, efficient utilization of raw hardware, parallel
file system contention and scalability, data management, I/O management,
reliability at scale, and application scalability. We welcome paper submissions
on all theoretical, simulations, and systems topics related to MTC, but we give
special consideration to papers addressing petascale to exascale challenges.
Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library (pending approval). The
workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2014 Conference in
New Orleans on November 17th, 2014. For more information, please see
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/.

For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS13, MTAGS12, MTAGS11,
MTAGS10, MTAGS09, and MTAGS08. We also ran a Special Issue on Many-Task
Computing in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
which appeared in June 2011; the proceedings can be found online at
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/trans/td/2011/06/ttd201106toc.htm.
We, the workshop organizers, also published a highly relevant paper that defines
Many-Task Computing which was published in MTAGS08, titled ?Many-Task Computing
for Grids and Supercomputers?; we encourage potential authors to read this
paper, and to clearly articulate in your paper submissions how your papers are
related to Many-Task Computing.


Topics
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We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below.
The papers should be 6 pages, including all figures and references. We aim to
cover topics related to Many-Task Computing on each of the three major
distributed systems paradigms, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and
Supercomputing. Topics of interest include:
* Compute Resource Management
   * Scheduling
   * Job execution frameworks
   * Local resource manager extensions
   * Performance evaluation of resource managers in use on large scale systems
   * Dynamic resource provisioning
   * Techniques to manage many-core resources and/or GPUs
   * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on HPC systems
   * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on Cloud
Computing infrastructure
* Storage architectures and implementations
   * Distributed file systems
   * Parallel file systems
   * Distributed meta-data management
   * Content distribution systems for large data
   * Data caching frameworks and techniques
   * Data management within and across data centers
   * Data-aware scheduling
   * Data-intensive computing applications
   * Eventual-consistency storage usage and management
* Programming models and tools
   * Map-reduce and its generalizations
   * Many-task computing middleware and applications
   * Parallel programming frameworks
   * Ensemble MPI techniques and frameworks
   * Service-oriented science applications
* Large-Scale Workflow Systems
   * Workflow system performance and scalability analysis
   * Scalability of workflow systems
   * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware
   * Programming Paradigms and Models
* Large-Scale Many-Task Applications
   * High-throughput computing (HTC) applications
   * Data-intensive applications
   * Quasi-supercomputing applications, deployments, and experiences
   * Performance Evaluation
* Performance evaluation
   * Real systems
   * Simulations
   * Reliability of large systems


Paper Submission and Publication
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Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more
than 6 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11
inch pages, as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be
found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The final 6
page papers in PDF format must be submitted online at
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2014/ before the deadline of August
25th, 2014 at 11:59PM PST (note that an abstract must be submitted 1 week prior
to the deadline, on August 18th, 2014). Papers will be peer-reviewed, and
accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM
digital library (in cooperation with SIGHPC). Notifications of the paper
decisions will be sent out by September 22nd, 2014. Accepted workshop papers
will be eligible for additional post-conference publication as journal articles
in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, Special Issue on Many-Task Computing
in the Cloud (papers will be due in February 2015,
file:///C:/Users/iraicu/Documents/Webs/DataSys/events/TCC-MTC15/index.html).
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register
and present the paper. For more information, please see
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/.


Important Dates
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*	Abstract Due:			August 18th, 2014
*	Papers Due:			August 25th, 2014
*	Notification of Acceptance:	September 22nd, 2014
*	Camera Ready Papers Due:	October  6th, 2014
*	Workshop Date:			November 16th, 2014



Committee Members
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Workshop Chairs
*	Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory
*	Justin Wozniak, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
*	Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
*	Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Steering Committee
*	David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
*	Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
*	Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
*	Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
*	Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
*	Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*	Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China

Technical Committee
*	Hasan Abbasi, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA
*	Tim Armstrong, University of Chicago, USA
*	Roger Barga, Microsoft, USA
*	Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia
*	Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA
*	Evangelinos Constantinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
*	Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA
*	Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago, USA
*	Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
*	Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
*	Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA
*	Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*	Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA
*	Jik-Soo Kim, Kristi, Korea
*	Scott A. Klasky, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA
*	Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
*	Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*	Chris Moretti, Princeton University, USA
*	David O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
*	Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
*	Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
*	Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
*	Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada
*	Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*	Edward Walker, Whitworth University, USA
*	Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*	Matthew Woitaszek, Walmart Labs, USA
*	Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
*	Zhifeng Yun, University of Houston, USA
*	Ziming Zheng, University of Chicago, USA


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================================================================Ioan Raicu,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
================================================================Data-Intensive
Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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