Quantum has announced that CERN will present at Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall 2010 on how it accelerates research and discovery using Quantum's StorNext data management software.

Collecting data from the collision between billions of particles requires not only a reliable and scalable IT infrastructure, but also an efficient and effective way to record and analyze the billions of bits of data generated every second. The ALICE project at CERN, one of the largest experiments in the world devoted to recounting the birth of matter, involves 1,000 physicists, engineers and technicians from 30 countries, resulting in unprecedented demands for data acquisition, selection, transfer, storage and handling.

At SNW, Pierre Vande Vyvre, project leader for ALICE data acquisition, will discuss steps his team took to implement the right storage solution, the specific needs of high-performance computing environments, and how CERN was able to architect its storage system to fully understand and exploit massive amounts of data for new scientific discoveries.

Session Title:  Beyond High Performance Computing: What Matters to CERN
Date:            Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010
Time:            3:05 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. CDT
Location:       The Gaylord Texan in Dallas, Texas