Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
June 20, Paris, France
In conjunction with HPDC 2006
<http://hpdc.lri.fr/index.php?section=General&subsection=Home>
www.isi.edu/works06
Call for Participation
In recent years workflows have emerged as a key technology that enables
large-scale computations on distributed resources. Workflows enable
scientists to design complex applications that are composed of
individual application components or services. Often times these
components and services are designed, developed, and tested
collaboratively. Because of the size of the data and the complexity of
the analysis, large amounts of shared resources such as clusters and
storage systems are being used to store the data sets and execute the
workflows. The process of workflow design and execution in a distributed
environment can be very complex and involve mapping high-level workflow
descriptions onto the available resources, as well as monitoring and
debugging of the subsequent execution. Because computations and data
access operations are performed on shared resources, there is an
increased interest in managing the fair allocation and management of
those resources at the workflow level.
Adequate workflow descriptions are needed to support the complex
workflow management process which includes workflow creation, workflow
reuse, and modifications made to the workflow over time-for example
modifications to the individual workflow components. Additional workflow
annotations may provide guidelines and requirements for resource mapping
and execution.
Large-scale scientific applications pose several
requirements on the workflow systems. Besides the magnitude of data
processed by the workflow components, the resulting and intermediate
data need to be annotated with provenance information and any other
information needed to evaluate the quality of the data and support the
repeatability of the analysis.
The Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
focuses on the entire workflow lifecycle including the workflow
composition, mapping, and robust execution.
The workshop program will consist of paper presentations
and a panel on the Relationship of Workflow and Distributed Programming
and Scripting. For the full workshop program, please visit:
http://www.isi.edu/works06/program.htm
To participate in the workshop please register at
http://hpdc.lri.fr/index.php?section=Info&subsection=registration
Please make sure to check the "Workflow" workshop on the registration
form. (The deadline for advance registration is May 19th).
I look forward to seeing you in Paris.
Ewa Deelman <mailto:deelman@isi.edu> , WORKS06 Chair
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GRID 2006 Call for Papers -- Extended dealine: April 21st, 13:00 EDT,
19:00 CEST
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GRID 2006 the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing
Barcelona, 28-29 September
www.grid2006.org
The Grid conference series is an anual international meeting that brings
together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and
users
involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve
as
both the premier conference presenting best Grid research and a forum
where
new concepts can be introduced and explored.
The previous events in this series were: Grid 2000, Bangalore, India;
Grid
2001, Denver; Grid 2002, Baltimore; Grid 2003, Phoenix; Grid 2004,
Pittsburgh;
and the sixth event, Grid 2005 in Seattle. All of these events have been
successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international
participation. Last year's event attracted about 400 registered
participants. From the second event through the sixth, we have been
known i
as the Grid Workshop affiliated with the Supercomputing SC conference
series.
For this, our seventh event, we will convene our first meeting as a
conference
and this year we will be co-located with the 2006 Cluster conference.
The proceedings of the first three workshops were published by
Springer-Verlag, and the proceedings of the three most recent workshops
were published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. We expect this year's
proceedings will join those of the last three years in the IEEE Computer
Society's Digital Library.
Grid 2006 has been labelled a CoreGRID event.
SCOPE
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Grid 2006 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but
are not limited to:
* Internet-based Computing Models
* Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications
* Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management
* Middleware and Toolkits
* Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools
* Resource Management and Scheduling
* Networking
* Virtual Instrumentation
* Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance
* Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations
* Architectures and Fabrics
* Information Services
* Security Issues
* Programming Models, Tools, and Environments
* Grid Economy
* Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids
* Performance Evaluation and Modeling
* Cluster and Grid Integration Issues
* Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications
Technical Papers
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Grid 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work (also
not
submitted elsewhere for review) reporting solid and innovative results
in any
aspect of grid computing and its applications. Papers should not exceed
8
single-spaced pages of text using 10-point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch
paper
(see IEEE author instructions, a LaTeX style sheet and Word format is
available, too). All bibliographical references, tables, and figures
must be included in these 8 pages. Submissions that exceed the 8-page
limit
will not be reviewed. Authors should submit a PDF file that will print
on a
PostScript printer.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper.
Proceedings: All papers selected for this conference are peer- reviewed
and will
be published as a separate proceedings. After the event, the papers
will also be published in the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library.
For author
instructions see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm
Special Issue: The best 6 to 8 papers from the conference will be
selected for journal length extension and their publication in a special
issue
of the Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS).
Important Dates
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1 March 2006 Paper submission site open
21 April 2006 Extended deadline for abstract and full paper
submission
9 June 2006 Acceptance notification
1 July 2006 Camera-ready copy due
28-29 Sept 2006 Conference
Conference Organization
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General co-Chairs
Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA
Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Program Chair
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
Program Vice Chairs
Applications: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Data Management: Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA
Networking/Security/Infrastructure: Olle Mulmo, Center for Parallel
Computers, KTH Sweeden
Scheduling/Resource management: Jarek Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing
Center, Poland
Tools/Software/Middleware: Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK
Publicity Chair: Julita Corbalan, Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya, Spain
Proceedings Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Finance Chair: Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Local arrangements chair: Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing
Center, Spain
Tutorial Chair: Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA
Steering Committee
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Chair: Craig Lee, Aerospace Corp., USA
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany
Daniel S. Katz, JPL/Caltech, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Heinz Stockinger, University of Vienna, Austria
