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IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing
Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud
Organization
Guest Editors ([email protected])
- Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory
- Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
- Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
 Dr.
Ioan Raicu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer
Science (CS) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), as well
as a guest research faculty in the Math and Computer Science
Division (MCS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). He is also
the founder (2011) and director of the Data-Intensive
Distributed Systems Laboratory (DataSys) at IIT. He has received
the prestigious NSF CAREER award (2011 - 2015) for his
innovative work on distributed file systems for exascale
computing. He was a NSF/CRA Computation Innovation Fellow at
Northwestern University in 2009 - 2010, and obtained his Ph.D.
in Computer Science from University of Chicago under the
guidance of Dr. Ian Foster in March 2009. He is a 3-year award
winner of the GSRP Fellowship from NASA Ames Research Center.
His research work and interests are in the general area of
distributed systems. His work focuses on a relatively new
paradigm of Many-Task Computing (MTC), which aims to bridge the
gap between two predominant paradigms from distributed systems,
High-Throughput Computing (HTC) and High-Performance Computing
(HPC). His work has focused on defining and exploring both the
theory and practical aspects of realizing MTC across a wide
range of large-scale distributed systems. He is particularly
interested in resource management in large scale distributed
systems with a focus on many-task computing, data intensive
computing, cloud computing, grid computing, and many-core
computing. Over the past decade, he has co-authored over 100
peer reviewed articles, book chapters, books, theses, and
dissertations, which received over 4364 citations, with a
H-index of 26. His work has been funded by the NASA Ames
Research Center, DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
Research, the NSF/CRA CIFellows program, and the NSF CAREER
program. He has also founded and chaired several workshops, such
as ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and
Supercomputers (MTAGS), the IEEE Int. Workshop on Data-Intensive
Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud), and the ACM Workshop on
Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud). He is on the
editorial board of the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing
(TCC), the Springer Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems
and Applications (JoCCASA), and the Springer Cluster Computing
Journal (Cluster). He has been leadership roles in several high
profile conferences, such as HPDC, CCGrid, Grid, eScience,
Cluster, and ICAC. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM. |
 Dr. Ian
Foster is Director of the Computation Institute, a joint institute
of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He
is also an Argonne Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow,
and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of
Computer Science at University of Chicago. He is also involved
with both the Open Grid Forum and with the Globus Alliance as an
open source strategist. In 2006, he was appointed director of
the Computation Institute, a joint project between the
University of Chicago, and Argonne. An earlier project, Strand,
received the British Computer Society Award for technical
innovation. His research resulted in the development of
techniques, tools and algorithms for high-performance
distributed computing and parallel computing. As a result he is
denoted as "the father of the Grid". Foster led research and
development of software for the I-WAY wide-area distributed
computing experiment, which connected supercomputers, databases
and other high-end resources at 17 sites across North America in
1995. His own labs, the Distributed Systems Laboratory is the
nexus of the multi-institute Globus Project, a research and
development effort that encourages collaborative computing by
providing advances necessary for engineering, business and other
fields. Furthermore the Computation Institute addresses many of
the most challenging computational and communications problems
facing Grid implementations today. In 2004, he founded Univa
Corporation, which was merged with United Devices in 2007 and
operate under the name Univa UD. Foster's honors include the
Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society, the Gordon Bell
Prize for high-performance computing (2001), as well as others.
He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in 2003. Dr. Foster also serves as PI or
Co-PI on projects connected to the DOE global change program,
the National Computational Science Alliance, the NASA
Information Power Grid project, the NSF Grid Physics Network,
GRIDS Center, and International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory
projects, and other DOE and NSF programs. His research is
supported by DOE, NSF, NASA, Microsoft, and IBM. |
 Dr.
Yong Zhao is a professor at the School of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of
China. Before joining the university, he worked at Microsoft on
Business Intelligence projects that leveraged Cloud storage and
computing infrastructure for Web analytics and behavior
targeting. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The
University of Chicago under Dr. Ian Foster's supervision, and
was the key designer of the GriPhyN Virtual Data System (VDS)
and the Swift parallel scripting system. VDS is a data and
workflow management system for data-intensive science
collaborations. VDS played a fundamental role in various Data
Grid projects such as iVDGL (International Virtual Data Grid
Laboratory), PPDG (Partical Physics Data Grid), OSG (Open
Science Grid) etc. Swift is a programming tool for fast,
scalable and reliable loosely-coupled parallel computation. It
comprises a simple scripting language called SwiftScript to
represent complex scientific workflows, and a scalable runtime
system to schedule hundreds of thousands of jobs onto
distributed and parallel computing resources. Yong's research
areas are in cloud computing, many-task computing, and data
intensive computing. He is especially interested in providing
resource management, workflow management, high level language
and scheduling support for large scale computations in Cloud and
Grid environments. |
 Dr.
Justin Wozniak's research is currently focused on novel languages
for high-performance scientific computing and systems
development. Much of his recent work is related to the
composition of complex scientific workflows. He is the lead
developer of the new Swift/T language for high-performance
many-task computing. He has also been involved in storage
system research and design. He is interested in concurrency,
fault tolerance and recovery, simulation of computer systems,
and control theoretic applications in computing systems.
Infrastructures targeted by his projects include clusters,
clouds, grids, and supercomputers such as the IBM Blue Gene and
the Cray XE6. |