CERN from an IT Perspective
summary
CERN operates a 27 km superconducting proton accelerator reaching ~7 TeV and generating about 600 million detector collision events per second; custom trigger and DAQ systems reduce that event rate into data suitable for analysis. Its IT estate stores roughly 150 PB on disk and ~300 PB on tape across about 6,000 drives, distributes processing via a global grid running millions of jobs, and uses web technologies, Java/JavaFX control applications and bespoke control-room interfaces for operations.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00CERN intro
- 4:41CERN’s location
- 9:47Particle physics history
- 15:27How accelerators work
- 27:17Data processing
- 33:13Computing evolution
- 39:06Global collaboration
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