Sharing a drink from the data firehose

The Large Hadron Collider will generate a torrential flood of nearly half a Gigabyte each second.

That’s too much data to simply record for later contemplation. It would fill your 160 GB iPod in about five minutes, and your 500 GB laptop in about 15 minutes. Instead, physicists will have to filter it, monitor it and analyze it, day in and day out.

To do so will take the efforts of more than 7000 scientists scattered around the world. But how to find a way for the physicists who are not at CERN to assist in filtering, monitoring and analyzing the data remotely, in real time?

That’s where the remote operations centers come in.

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Tevfik Kosar on smart data handling

In e-science, we are always looking for ways to complete more complex computations faster. Researcher Tevfik Kosar chats with iSGTW about how his research could someday help.

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