Workshop 7: HPBDC High-Performance Big Data and Cloud Computing

Managing and processing large volumes of data, or Big Data, and gaining meaningful insights is a significant challenge facing the parallel and distributed computing community. This has significant impact in a wide range of domains including health care, bio-medical research, Internet search, finance and business informatics, and scientific computing. As data-gathering technologies and data sources witness an explosion in the amount of input data, it is expected that in the future massive quantities of data in the order of hundreds or thousands of petabytes will need to be processed. Thus, it is critical that data-intensive computing middleware (such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc.) to process such data are diligently designed, with high performance and scalability, in order to meet the growing demands of such Big Data applications.