Big 2013 - 4th SC Workshop on Petascale (Big) Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities

Recent decade has witnessed data explosion, and petabyte sized data archives are not uncommon any more. It is estimated that organizations with high end computing (HEC) infrastructures and data centers are doubling the amount of data that they are archiving every year. On the other hand computing infrastructures are becoming more heterogeneous. Continuing on the success of the first three workshops, held in conjunction with SC-10, SC-11, and SC-12, in addition to the cloud focus, we propose to broaden the topic of this workshop with an emphasis on middleware infrastructure that facilitate efficient data analytics on big data. The proposed workshop intends to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to discuss new and emerging trends in high end computing platforms, programming models, middleware and software services, and outline the data mining and knowledge discovery approaches that can efficiently exploit this modern computing infrastructure.
This workshop is organized by Scott Klasky from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Manish Parashar from Rutgers University, and Ranga Raju Vatsavai from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.