Everyday IT keeps the LHC at Cern on track

Daniel Robinson
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Cern's database services architect discusses the challenges of operating the world's largest machine

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern near Geneva in Switzerland generates a petabyte of data every second during experiments to probe conditions that existed at the start of the universe. But...

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