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to the scale of data. Because we are moving rapidly toward extremely large
scale data generation, scalability is an important issue to be addressed. It has
been reported that Amazon Web Services (AWS) estimates that its S3 storage
service will soon have more than a trillion objects in storage and be capable of
handling a million requests per second [84]. Therefore, distributed and parallel
programming techniques and models must be developed for future system and
application developers.
