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With the age of Big Data coming, the three defining characteristics of Big Data–Volume, variety and Velocity, make Cloud Computing facing new challenges. In response to the demand of Big Data analytics, using distributed computing cluster to process vast amounts of data is a megatrend. In this paper, we discuss the performance of distributed computing clusters provided by the current cloud computing...