The recent boom of big data, coupled with the challenges of its processing and storage gave
rise to the development of distributed data processing and storage paradigms like …

Finding performance bottlenecks through bench-marking is one of the driving forces to
improve the resource provision efficiency of cloud computing. Although existing benchmarks …

As the volume of data generated each day continues to increase, more and more interest is
put into Big Data algorithms and the insight they provide.? Since these analyses require a …

Modern computers can experience a variety of transient errors due to the surrounding
environment, known as soft faults. Although the frequency of these faults is low enough to …

The advent of big data about a decade ago, coupled with its processing and storage
challenges gave rise to the development of a multitude of data-intensive frameworks. These …