The Science Cloud – Towards a Research Data Ecosystem for the next Generation of Data‐intensive Experiments and Observatories

Europe/Berlin
Physikzentrum (Bad Honnef)

Physikzentrum

Bad Honnef

Hauptstraße 5, 53604 Bad Honnef
Andreas Haungs (KIT), Karl Mannheim (Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany), Matthias Steinmetz (AIP )
Description

711. WE-Heraeus-Seminar

Link to webpage of the 711. Heraeus Seminar

The next-generation of physics and astronomy flagship projects require high-throughput exascale computing solutions. Examples are the 

  • High-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN,
  • Square Kilometre Array radio telescope,
  • Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or
  • Einstein Telescope.

The projects have in common that they heavily rely on robust and scalable solutions for their data challenge. These solutions will make best use of progress in the performance and sustainability of the IT-hardware, but most of all of intelligent data pipelines. In the future, raw data will be heavily processed reducing the volume under a controlled loss of information to facilitate the long-time archival of the data and to make the data accessible to the widely distributed user communities. Among the data processing tools, machine-learning algorithms could play a potentially important role for reducing data but retaining the encoded information. New technologies and computer architectures as well as a standardized approach to the programming of data pipelines are key to a highly performant research data infrastructure serving the needs of the diversity of experiments and observatories.

The seminar encourages discussions among experts from science and industry with young scientists how to meet these challenges, addressing the long-term vision of community efforts for the advancement of fundamental science. The seminar also has a message to the scientific community: More efforts are needed to support the career of young researchers who gear up to tackle the gigantic data challenges.

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Contact: Andreas Haungs