Cloud Computing can be seen as one of the latest major evolution in computing offering
unlimited possibility to use ICT in various domains: business, smart cities, medicine …

With supercomputers develo** towards exascale, the number of compute cores increases
dramatically, making more complex and larger-scale applications possible. The input/output …

Presents a collection of slides covering the following topics: Cavium 32 core OCTEON II
68xx; power scalability; cache coherence; interconnect bandwidth; memory bandwidth; chip …

Data-intensive scientific workflows are composed of many tasks that exhibit data
precedence constraints leading to communication schemes expressed by means of …

Data-intensive scientific workflows exhibit inter-task dependencies that generate file-based
communication schemes. In such scenarios, traditional disk-based storage systems often …

Scientific domains such as astronomy or bioinformatics produce increasingly large amounts
of data that need to be analyzed. Such analyses are modeled as scientific workflows …

For large-scale online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, network analysis often
uses graph queries to extract network information. Because of the work and memory …

Compute clusters, consisting of many, uniformly built nodes, are used to run a large
spectrum of different workloads, like tightly coupled (MPI) jobs, MapReduce, or graph …

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) based storage systems in high performance computing (HPC), such
as Lustre, are being confronted with great challenges from massive parallel data-intensive …

With the exponential volume growth of the data available for scientific and commercial use,
more and more Big Data technologies are gaining focus and importance. Directly related to …