This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First National Conference on Big Data Technology and Applications, BDTA 2015, held in Harbin, China, in December 2015. The 26 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address issues such as the storage technology of Big Data; analysis of Big Data and data mining; visualization of Big Data; the parallel computing framework under Big Data; the architecture and basic theory of Big Data; collection and preprocessing of Big Data; innovative applications in some areas, such as internet of things and cloud computing.

This book presents a hybrid static-dynamic approach for efficient performance analysis of parallel applications on HPC systems. Performance analysis is essential to finding performance bottlenecks and understanding the performance behaviors of parallel applications on HPC systems. However, current performance analysis techniques usually incur significant overhead. Our book introduces a series of approaches for lightweight performance analysis. We combine static and dynamic analysis to reduce the overhead of performance analysis. Based on this hybrid static-dynamic approach, we then propose several innovative techniques for various performance analysis scenarios, including communication analysis, memory analysis, noise analysis, computation analysis, and scalability analysis. Through these specific performance analysis techniques, we convey to readers the idea of using static analysis to support dynamic analysis. To gain the most from the book, readers should have a basic grasp of parallel computing, computer architecture, and compilation techniques.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 10.3International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2016,held in Xi'an, China, in October 2016. The 17 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections; memory: non-volatile, solid state drives, hybrid systems; resilience and reliability; scheduling and load-balancing; heterogeneous systems; data processing and big data; and algorithms and computational models.