Keynotes

Summary form only given. Increasingly Big Data computing is being applied to some of the world´s most difficult, most urgent problems. This talk will describe the nature of Big Data computing and present technology that has been developed to allow Big Data computing systems to address these challenges. We discuss the design of systems for Big Data and their corresponding middleware and look at how both of these might evolve and challenge the current thinking about Big Data systems. Finally we motivate shared-memory heterogeneous architectures in this context and we discuss the coherent attach processor interface on Power 8 as a concrete example of how to achieve a system-level benefit.