[Condor-users] Call for Participation: IEEE MTAGS 2012 at SC12 on November 12th -- Win a Google Nexus 7!

[Ioan Raicu <iraicu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Call for Participation

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The 5th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/
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November 12th, 2012
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12)

Location: 155-C
Date: November 12th, 2012
Time: 9AM - 5:30PM

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The 5th workshop on Many-Task Computing on 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. The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2012
Conference in Salt Lake City Utah on November 12th, 2012. For more information, please
see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/.

Some highlights of the upcoming workshop program:
* Win a Google Nexus 7 tablet (visit http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/prize.html);
  Must be present at 5:30PM on November 12th, 2012, at the workshop to win.
* Keynote Talk: Adaptive Runtime Systems meet needs of many task computing by
                Dr. Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, Professor of Computer Science, University
                of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
* Invited Talk: Petascale Challenge Award: Data Management for Parallel Scripting, by
                Zhao Zhang (UChicago)
* Invited Talk: Biggest Impact Award: IaaS Cloud Benchmarking: Approaches, Challenges,
                and Experience, by Alex Iosup (TUDelft)
* Invited Talk: Cloud Challenge Award: Portable Data Mining on Azure and HPC Platforms,
                by Judy Qiu (IndianaU)
* Paper Talk:   Accessible Datastore of High-Throughput Calculations: Experiences from
                the Materials Project
* Paper Talk:   Resource Management for Dynamic MapReduce Clusters in Multicluster
                Systems
* Paper Talk:   A Comparative Study of Data Processing Approaches for Text Processing
                Workflows
* Paper Talk:   A Scalable Master-Worker Architecture for PaaS Clouds
* Paper Talk:   HOG:Distributed Hadoop MapReduce on the Grid
* Paper Talk:   A Hybrid Scheduling Approach for Scalable Heterogeneous Hadoop Systems
* Paper Talk:   Software-as-a-Service: The iPlant Foundation API
     
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General Chairs
    Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
   
Program Committee Chair
    Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   
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Generous sponsorship has been confirmed from University of Chicago (Computation Institute)
and Illinois Institute of Technology (College of Science and Letters, and Graduate School)!
See http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS12/index.html#Sponsors for more details.

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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Office: 1-312-567-5704
Email:  iraicu@xxxxxxxxxx
Web:    http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/
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