Tracking and joining billions of dots of data | News | Times Higher Education

Tracking and joining billions of dots of data | News | Times Higher Education

Work is under way to ensure that big data do not mean big headaches for researchers in the physical sciences
Imagine you are a physicist and you have worked almost non-stop for five days to complete hundreds of experiments at the world’s largest neutron facility. You have reams of data that you cannot wait to get home and analyse. The last few hours have you climbing the walls in frustration over how agonisingly long it takes to copy huge datasets to a portable storage device.(...)