Title Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Fundamentals and General Concepts -- Big Data: Insight and the Scientific Method -- Programming Visual and Script-Based Big Data Analytics Workflows on Clouds -- Big Data from Scientific Simulations -- Towards a Comprehensive Set of Big Data Benchmarks -- Technologies, Processing and Storage -- Big Data Technologies -- Cori: A Pre-Exascale Supercomputer for Big Data and HPC Applications -- Architectural Implications for Exascale Based on Big Data Workflow Requirements -- Case Studies -- Networking Materials Data: Accelerating Discovery at Experimental Facilities -- Big Data Research at DKRZ - Climate Model Data Production Workflow -- Subject Index -- Author Index.