Course Presentations

See the course schedule for the precise times of each presentation. Speaker biographies are posted on a separate page.

Monday, July 26
  • Opening Keynote: Extreme Data-Intensive Computing (Alex Szalay, The Johns Hopkins University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Making the Most of the I/O Software Stack (Rob Latham, Argonne National Laboratory) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Data Movement & Storage: Data Capacitor WAN Filesystem (Justin Miller, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Scalable and Distributed Visualization Using ParaView (Eric Wernert, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
Tuesday, July 27
  • Overview of FutureGrid (Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • FutureGrid Tutorial (Craig Stewart, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Introduction to MapReduce and Hadoop (Stephen Wu, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Introduction to Amazon EC2 (Thilina Gunarathne, Indiana University and IBM) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
Wednesday, July 28
  • Overview of Cloud Computing Platforms (Judy Qiu, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Introduction to Azure (Jaliya Ekanayake, Microsoft Research) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Introduction to DryadLINQ (Christophe Poulain, Microsoft Research) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Iterative MapReduce (Jaliya Ekanayake, Microsoft Research) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Azure MapReduce (Thilina Gunarathne, Indiana University and IBM) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
Thursday, July 29
  • Data Transport and File Systems (Mahidhar Tatineni, San Diego Supercomputer Center) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Tracking Science in Real Time from Large-scale Usage Data (Johan Bollen, Indiana University) [ppt] [pdf]
  • Big Data in Drug Discovery (David Wild, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Cancer Epigenetics Study Using Next-Generation Sequencing Data (Sun Kim, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
Friday, July 30
  • Closing Keynote: Distributed Data-Parallel Computing: Sector/Sphere (Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
    • Tutorial: Sector/Sphere Installation and Usage (Yunhong Gu, University of Illinois at Chicago) [ppt] [pdf]
  • Plug-and-Play Virtual Appliance Clusters Running Hadoop (Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Virtual Observatory Technologies (Tamas Budavari, The Johns Hopkins University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]
  • Big Data Workshop Summary (Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University) [video] [ppt] [pdf]