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Data-Intensive Computing

Data-Intensive Computing

Data-Intensive Computing

Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications
Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington
Deborah K. Gracio, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington
October 2012
Hardback
9780521191951

    The world is awash with digital data from social networks, blogs, business, science and engineering. Data-intensive computing facilitates understanding of complex problems that must process massive amounts of data. Through the development of new classes of software, algorithms and hardware, data-intensive applications can provide timely and meaningful analytical results in response to exponentially growing data complexity and associated analysis requirements. This emerging area brings many challenges that are different from traditional high-performance computing. This reference for computing professionals and researchers describes the dimensions of the field, the key challenges, the state of the art and the characteristics of likely approaches that future data-intensive problems will require. Chapters cover general principles and methods for designing such systems and for managing and analyzing the big data sets of today that live in the cloud and describe example applications in bioinformatics and cybersecurity that illustrate these principles in practice.

    • Shows how to design software systems to handle big data sets
    • Discusses using clouds and high performance computing systems for processing massive data sets
    • Includes numerous algorithms for data-intensive computing

    Product details

    October 2012
    Hardback
    9780521191951
    297 pages
    235 × 155 × 18 mm
    0.52kg
    82 b/w illus. 8 tables
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Data-intensive computing: a challenge for the twenty-first century Ian Gorton and Deborah K. Gracio
    • 2. The anatomy of data-intensive computing applications Ian Gorton and Deborah K. Gracio
    • 3. Hardware architectures for data-intensive computing problems: a case study for string matching Antonino Tumeo, Oreste Villa and Daniel Chavarrıa-Miranda
    • 4. Data management architectures Terence Critchlow, Ghaleb Abdulla, Jacek Becla, Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam, Sam Lang and Deborah L. McGuinness
    • 5. Large-scale data management techniques in cloud computing platforms Sherif Sakr and Anna Liu
    • 6. Dimension reduction for streaming data Chandrika Kamath
    • 7. Binary classification with support vector machines Patrick Nichols, Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson and Christopher Oehmen
    • 8. Beyond MapReduce: new requirements for scalable data processing Bill Howe
    • 9. Letting the data do the talking: hypothesis discovery from large-scale data sets in real time Christopher Oehmen, Scott Dowson, Wes Hatley, Justin Almquist, Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson, Jason McDermott, Ian Gorton and Lee Ann McCue
    • 10. Data-intensive visual analysis for cybersecurity William A. Pike, Daniel M. Best, Douglas V. Love and Shawn J. Bohn.
      Contributors
    • Ian Gorton, Deborah K. Gracio, Antonino Tumeo, Oreste Villa, Daniel Chavarrıa-Miranda, Terence Critchlow, Ghaleb Abdulla, Jacek Becla, Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam, Sam Lang, Deborah L. McGuinness, Sherif Sakr, Anna Liu, Chandrika Kamath, Patrick Nichols, Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson, Christopher Oehmen, Bill Howe, Scott Dowson, Wes Hatley, Justin Almquist, Jason McDermott, Lee Ann McCue, William A. Pike, Daniel M. Best, Douglas V. Love, Shawn J. Bohn