'''Data-intensive computing''' is a class of [[parallel computing]] applications which use a [[data parallel]] approach to processingprocess large volumes of data typically [[terabytes]] or [[petabytes]] in size and typically referred to as [[big data]]. Computing applications which devote most of their execution time to computational requirements are deemed compute-intensive, whereas computing applications which require large volumes of data and devote most of their processing time to I/O and manipulation of data are deemed data-intensive.<ref>[http://www.cse.fau.edu/~borko/HandbookofCloudComputing.html Handbook of Cloud Computing], "Data-Intensive Technologies for Cloud Computing," by A.M. Middleton. Handbook of Cloud Computing. Springer, 2010.</ref>
