HPC Software and Programming Environments for Big Data Applications

The complexity of scientific and engineering problems has increased significantly as data have been generated at high speed. Traditional HPC systems have begun to provide a large data-processing infrastructure for high-performance big data processing. In particular, HPC software and programming environments provide a rich computing framework for large data issues that have not previously been resolved. However, traditional HPC system software and programming models were not originally designed and developed for big data application processing and were difficult to use. This special edition includes articles that address issues that improve existing software and programming environment and use them for high-performance big data processing.