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Many-task computing large scale systems will involve substantial technical challenges and will have big impact on science." Some related areas are multiple program multiple data (MPMD), high throughput computing (HTC), workflows, capacity computing, or embarrassingly parallel. Some projects that could support MTC workloads are Condor, Mapreduce, Hadoop, Boinc, Cobalt HTC-mode, Falkon, and Swift., Many-task computing Many-task computing (MTC) in computational science is an approach to parallel computing that aims to bridge the gap between two computing paradigms, high-throughput computing (HTC) and high-performance computing (HPC). MTC is reminiscent of HTC, but it "differs in the emphasis of using many computing resources over short