Ioan Raicu

Illinois Institute of Technology

Argonne National Laboratory

Prof. Raicu Co-Chairs ACM MTAGS13 workshop at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2013

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ioan Raicu served as co-chair of the 6th ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2013, along with Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory), Yong Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), and Justin Wozniak (Argonne National Laboratory). The workshop was part of the prestigious IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2013 conference and took place on November 17th in Denver Colorado. The workshop program attracted over 100 attendees and comprised a keynote talk by Douglas Thain (Notre Dame), a panel discussion featuring renowned researchers (Robert Grossman, Xian-He Sun, Judy Qiu, and Alexandru Iosup), 2 invited research papers, and 5 peer-reviewed research papers. For more information about the MTAGS13 workshop, visit http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS13/. The workshop was sponsored by the IIT College of Science and Letters. These sponsorships allowed the workshops to fund awards for the best paper and for a prize for one lucky attendee.