The Center for Big Data features a three-layer structure.
Research
Layer 1: Big Data Repository
Goals: Share data and analysis results for community building
Tasks: Standardize, categorize, and benchmark datasets
Layer 2: Big Data Technological Infrastructure
Goals: Provide generic and special big-data enabling solutions
Tasks: Investigate, design, develop, implement, and test big data-oriented analytics, visualization, computing, networking, workflow, storage, and retrieval solutions
Layer 3: Big Data Applications
Goals: Advances sciences in various domains
Tasks: Adapt, customize, and refine application-specific solutions
