From August 21-25 2017, the two Big Data Competence Centers in Germany, ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig and BBDC, hosted the 3rd International Summer School on Big Data in their summer school series. The summer school took place at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Program & Highlights 

Preceding the 3rd Joint International ScaDS and BBDC Summer School for Big Data, a Big Data hackathon was held in Munich from August 19th-20th. The hackathon aimed to attract a diverse and international audience from academia and business and in particular computer science master students. During the two-day hackathon, participants learned how to build complex real-time data analytics pipelines based on open-source cluster-computing frameworks (i.e., Apache Flink and Apache Spark).

In the open coding session, participants implemented their ideas using this framework. The task to be solved was to select one or more real-time data sources, provided either by self-selected samples or by historical data sources, and create real-time analytics that improve strategic planning or decision making. Prizes (up to €1,500) were awarded to the groups with the best ideas, implementations and demonstrations.

The summer school provided overviews as well as deep dive sessions about the following topic highlights:

• Overview about Big Data concepts and architectures
• Data integration for Big Data
• Scalable graph analytics
• Data processing and streaming
• Data analytics methods
• Concepts of data and meta data management

Below you will find the full program with additional information on the speakers and their topics:

Monday 21.08.17

Time	Person	Topic
11:00 – 12:30	Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel and Prof. Volker Markl	Welcome & Big Data Overview
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30	Prof. Wolfgang Lehner	Next-Generation Hardware for Big Data Management
15:30 – 16:00	BREAK	BREAK
16:00 – 17:30	Prof. Tilmann Rabl	Big Data Stream Processing

Tuesday 22.08.17

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 10:30	Prof. Alfons Kemper	HyPer: Building a Main-Memory Database System for Modern Hardware
10:30 – 11:00	BREAK	BREAK
11:00 – 12:00	Prof. Rakesh Agrawal	Data-Driven Education: Technologies and Directions
12:00 – 12:30		Hackathon Summary and Award
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30	Prof. Carsten Binning	Interactive Data Exploration
15:30 – 16:00	BREAK	BREAK
16:00 – 17:30	Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel	Big Data & HPC

Wednesday 23.08.17

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 10:30	Prof. Ken Salem	Memory management in Apache Spark
10:30 – 11:00	BREAK	BREAK
11:00 – 12:30	Dr. Ziawasch Abedjan	Data Profiling
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30		Guided Visit of LRZ Supercomputer
15:30 – 16:00		Walking Round Trip through “Garchinger Heide”
19:00		Summer School Dinner at Gasthof Neuwirt

Thursday 24.08.17

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 10:30	Prof. Gustavo Alonso	Data Processing on Emerging Hardware
10:30 – 11:00	BREAK	BREAK
11:00 – 12:30	Stephan Wolf (Google Research Europe)	Hands-On (Part I) | Introduction to TensorFlow
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30	Stephan Wolf (Google Research Europe)	Hands-On (Part II) | Introduction to TensorFlow
15:30 – 16:00	BREAK	BREAK
16:00 – 17:30	Stefan Bäuerle and Jonathan Dees	SAP Hana & Vora

Friday 25.08.17

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 10:30	Prof. Michael J. Carey	Big NoSQL Data
10:30 – 11:00	BREAK	BREAK
11:00 – 12:30	Prof. Erhard Rahm	Scalable Graph Analytics
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30	Dr. Divesh Srivastava	Big Data Integration
15:30		Closing

Organizers

Both the Summer School 2017 and the Hackathon were organized by the two Competence Centers for Big Data research in Germany, ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig and BBDC. We greatly appreciate the local support of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and the Technical University of Munich in hosting the event!

Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Prof. Dr. Volker Markl BBDC, Technische Universität Berlin Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Technische Universität Dresden Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lehner ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Technische Universität Dresden Prof. Alfons Kemper  Technical University of Munich Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Bungartz  Leibniz Supercomputing Center Dr. René Jäkel ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Technische Universität Dresden Prof. Dr. Tilmann Rabl  BBDC, Technische Universität Berlin Dr. Eric Peukert  ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University

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