From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ioan Raicu Subject: Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing - Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:20:46 -0500 Message-ID: <53C1443E.8070309@cs.iit.edu> Reply-To: iraicu@cs.iit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: publicity@hipeac.net, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, micro_publicity@crhc.uiuc.edu, performance@merlot.usc.edu, sigplan-l@acm.uiuc.edu List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------ IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TCC-MTC15/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Special Issue on Many-Task Computing (MTC) in the Cloud will provide th= e scientific community a dedicated forum, within the prestigious IEEE Trans= actions on Cloud Computing journal, for presenting new research, developmen= t, and deployment efforts of loosely coupled large scale applications on Cl= oud Computing infrastructure. MTC, the theme of this special issue, encompa= sses loosely coupled applications, which are generally composed of many tas= ks to achieve some larger application goal. This special issue will cover c= hallenges that can hamper efficiency and utilization in running application= s on large-scale systems, such as local resource manager scalability and gr= anularity, efficient utilization of raw hardware, parallel file-system cont= ention and scalability, data management, I/O management, reliability at sca= le, and application scalability. We welcome paper submissions in theoretica= l, simulations, and systems topics with special consideration to papers add= ressing the intersection of petascale/exascale challenges with large-scale = cloud computing. We seek submission of papers that present new, original an= d innovative ideas for the "first" time in TCC (Transactions on Cloud Compu= ting). That means, submission of "extended versions" of already published w= orks (e.g., conference/workshop papers) is not encouraged unless they conta= in significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with = more than 49% brand "new" material. For more information on past workshops and special issues on Many-Task Comp= uting, see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS/index.html. We ran a Spec= ial Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and D= istributed Systems (TPDS) which appeared in June 2011; the proceedings can = be found online at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/trans/td/201= 1/06/ttd201106toc.htm. The special issue editors also published a highly re= levant paper that defines Many-Task Computing which was published in the in= augural MTAGS08 workshop, titled "Many-Task Computing for Grids and Superco= mputers"; we encourage potential authors to read this paper, and to clearly= articulate in your paper submissions how your papers are related to Many-T= ask Computing. For more information on this special issue, please see http://datasys.cs.ii= t.edu/events/TCC-MTC15/. Topics ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------ We seek submission of papers that present new, original and innovative idea= s for the "first" time in TCC (Transactions on Cloud Computing). That means= , submission of "extended versions" of already published works (e.g., confe= rence/workshop papers) will only be encouraged if they contain significant = number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 49% b= rand "new" material. TCC expects submissions to be complete in all respects= including author names, affiliation, bios etc. Manuscript should be 14 dou= ble column pages (all regular paper page limits include references and auth= or biographies). We aim to cover topics related to Many-Task Computing and = Cloud Computing. 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 syst= ems * Dynamic resource provisioning * Techniques to manage many-core resources and/or GPUs * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on Cloud C= omputing 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------ Authors are invited to submit unpublished and original work to the IEEE Tra= nsactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in= the Cloud. If the paper is extended from an initial work, the submission m= ust contain at least 50% new material that can be qualified as =93brand=94 = new ideas and results. The paper must be in the IEEE TCC format, namely 14 = double-column pages or 30 single-column pages (Note: All regular paper page= limits include references and author biographies). Please note that the do= uble-column format will translate more readily into the final publication f= ormat. A double-column page is defined as a 7.875=94=D710.75=94 page with 1= 0-point type, 12-point vertical spacing, and 0.5 inch margins. A single-col= umn page is defined as an 8.5=94=D711=94 page with 12-point type and 24-poi= nt vertical spacing, containing approximately 250 words. All of the margins= should be one inch (top, bottom, right and left). These length limits are = taking into account reasonably-sized figures and references. Papers must be= submitted using the submission system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc= c-cs, by selecting the special issue option =93SI-MTC=94. For more informat= ion, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TCC-MTC15/. Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------ * Abstract Due: February 2nd, 2015 * Papers Due: February 9th, 2015 * First round decisions: May 18th, 2015 * Major Revisions if needed: July 18th, 2015 * Final decisions: August 18th, 2015 * Publication Date: Fall 2015 (may vary depending on production queue) Guest Editors ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------ * 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 -- = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Editor: IEEE TCC, Springer Cluster, Springer JoCCASA Chair: IEEE/ACM MTAGS, ACM ScienceCloud =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu@cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanraicu Google: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3DjE73HYAAAAAJ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D