Thread by @cto_maverick

@cern talk next up at
@AnalyticsInsIre #AnalyticsSummit19

@nasa looks at macro scale and @cern at the tiniest scale

95% of the universe is unknown

@cern has built a €13.8B time-machine to understand the universe outside Geneva

@ubotica is one of the few Irish companies that has been inside the @CERN LHC with @esa @ESA_EO

Battering @IntelMovidius #MyriadX using this baby 100m below ground using 50M sensors and 40M fps

The SoC designed here in Ireland passed with flying colours

@ubotica @Intel_IRL @Inteliot @ESA_EO @Happy4Trigger

The next step is an 80km accelerator to accelerate particles to 99.9999% of the speed of light

Machine Learning is at the heart of the largest IoT installation on the planet

BTW 90% of @CERN staff are engineers not physicists

Only AI/ML can pick apart 40M collisions per sec

The HW Trigger system is used to achieve ultra low latency @ 1petabyte/sec

Trigger parses out 1k from 1.7B collisions at the heart of the ATLAS detector

@cern inference, not training, is the big challenge

Inference has to be completed in tiny fractions of a second using FPGAs

The €1B EU quantum computing initiative could target particle physics as its an ideal use case

The energy required from the grid is so high the LHC has to be switched off in winter to prevent Switzerland from freezing

The @cern massive IoT instrument generates a tsunami of data

Hadoop didn't fit @CERN's needs given the size of the dataset. For real time operation a better solution is required for 24hr uptime. They're using @Oracle object storage for much more cost-efficient storage

They're using a custom framework but have built @ProjectJupyter workbooks on top for ease of use