Thinking BigData: Motivation, Results and a Few Recipes for a Balanced Growth of High Performance Computing in Academia
Paolo Margara, Nicolo' Nepote, Elio Piccolo, Claudio Giovanni Demartini, Paolo Montuschi · PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino) · 2013
Big Data is today both an emerging research area and a real present and future demand. High Performance Computing (HPC) Centers cannot neglect this fact and have to be reshaped to fulfill this need. In this paper we share our experience of upgrading a HPC Center at Politecnico di Torino, originally designed and deployed in 2010. We believe that this issue could be common to some other existing "general purpose" HPC centers where, at least in the short term, the possibility to start from scratch a new Big Data HPC center cannot be afforded but a balanced upgrade of the existing system has to be preferred