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 ## The bigdata micro benchmark suite ##
 
 
-- Current version: 5.0
-- Release date: 2015-10-12
-- Homepage: https://github.com/intel-hadoop/HiBench
-- To ask a question or report an issue, please use Github Issues
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 - Contents:
   1. Overview
   2. Getting Started