During the past few decades, there has been considerable evolution in the innovations in hardware architectures as the multi-core parallel machines or MIC (Many Integrated Cores) and the progress in the field of parallelism and techniques used to managing and processing Big Data. Processing large datasets for extracting information and knowledge has always been a fundamental problem. Today this problem is further exacerbated, and the sequential resolution is unable to find solutions in a reasonable time. However, parallelization in this context seeks to exploit the massive computing resources increasingly available on the multicore computers. The interplay between cores and architectures dramatically complicates the design of new approaches towards the parallelization of new frameworks that are central to achieving optimal performance.

The Workshop on High Performance Big Data Computing provides a platform for the dissemination of recent research efforts that explicitly aim at addressing these challenges. It supports the presentation of solutions for a modern HPC systems and the associated middleware which have been exploiting the advances in HPC technologies. It also support the new approach used to address the Big Data problems in cloud infrastructure.