TY - BOOK AU - Gorton,Ian AU - Gracio,Deborah K. TI - Data-Intensive Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications SN - 9780511844409 (ebook) AV - QA76.88 .D38 2013 U1 - 004.5 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - High performance computing KW - Database management KW - Computer storage devices KW - Software architecture KW - Data transmission systems N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016) N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844409 ER -