Workshop on Data Science with [a] Spark
ETHZ CSCS and IDIDS Institute of Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana (USI) organise:
“Data Science with [a] Spark”
Lugano (Switzerland), September 13-15, 2016
a two and a half day workshop that addresses high-level parallelization for data analytics workloads using the Apache Spark framework.
Learning objectives are:
* to understand the value of parallelization
* to understand the value of a high-level framework like Apache Spark
* to understand the MapReduce paradigm, which is central to Spark
* to get hands-on experience in applying the MapReduce paradigm for various applications, ranging from statistical analysis to machine learning
Additionally, participants will learn how to prototype with Spark and how to exploit large HPC machines like the Piz Daint CSCS flagship system.
All information and registration can be found at:
http://www.cscs.ch/events/event_detail/index.html?tx_seminars_pi1[showUid]=139