Surpassing the standard

The control systems for CERN’s highly complex mix of accelerators, detectors, and information-management technologies create one of the most challenging Internet of Things (IoT) environments in the world. That IoT system needs to persist and facilitate analytics on mission-critical data from more than two million signals. The Oracle Database logging all of that information is measured in petabytes and grows every day.

CERN has proven that Oracle Cloud can integrate within the large Worldwide LHC Computing Grid with up to 10,000 cores on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. CERN is also working with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse to improve the operational efficiency of the control IoT—all with the goal of accelerating scientific discovery.

As researchers look beyond the Standard Model of physics, exploring dark matter and dark energy, CERN is investigating Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to help scale its operations to the unprecedented levels its research will require.

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