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Big Data (BD) represents a tectonic shift that is transforming the entire research landscape and opens a tremendous range of business opportunities. While the High Performance Computing (HPC) community continues to build and strengthen its ecosystem and is moving toward the exascale unprecedented challenge, there is a need for the HPC and BD communities to systematically map out and account for the ways in which the major issues associated with BD intersect with, impige upon and potentially change the national and international plans that are now being laid out.
By being a main actor of the Big Data and Extreme-scale Computing (BDEC) workshops, the EXDCI project contributes actively to the dialog between HPC and BD. As there was a need to go further the current state-of-the art, EXDCI invited the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) for a common session which aimed to create linkages between the two communities.
Programme
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 08:30 – 12:30h |
Common HPC and BD glossary: Determine a common reference to understand possible relationships between a typical HPC stack and a BD Analytics stack |
Hans-Christian HOPPE & Mark ASCH |
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Cross-Pollination of HPC and BD technologies: What respective technologies/approaches from a HPC stack or a BD Analytics stack can benefit the other’s needs e.g respective hybrid systems that incorporate select elements from either HPC of BD technologies/approaches |
Costas BEKAS & Jenad STOJANOVIC |
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Extreme BD workloads: Understand bottlenecks through better appreciation of centralized and decentralized processing of extreme big data workloads |
Maria S. PEREZ |
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Collaboration between HPC CoEs and BD CoEs: Facilitate better communication between HPC’s CoEs (https://exdci.eu/collaboration/coe) and BD CoEs (http://i-know.tugraz.at/european-network/) |
Paul CZECH & Erwin LAURE | |
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Update on Extreme-Scale Demonstrators (ESDs) and Exascale co-design |
Michael MALMS | |
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User engagement: Understanding user base (UX Analysis) and the need for skills development and business models |
Andrea MANIERI & François BODIN |
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Exploring options for possible collaborations in view of forthcoming WP 2018-2020 |
Jim KENNEALLY & Michael MALMS |