CERN, the European organization
for nuclear research,
builds and operates a particle
accelerator for physicists.
And the goal is to promote
fundamental research.
Today, we maintain
a catalog online,
available to the entire
physics community of the world.
We store a large amount of
data coming from the LHC.
This requires
in-memory databases
for which we see
that we are hitting
some severe limitation
of the current computing
architectures.
In particular, RAM
is not persistent.
When our database
needs to be restarted,
this takes tens of
minutes, if not hours.
With Intel Optane DC
Persistent Memory,
we see the way to reduce
significantly this waiting
time.
In scientific computing, we
see that the analysis of data
is using techniques of deep
learning, machine learning,
and artificial intelligence.
And the efficiency
of these algorithms
really depends on these
new technology or new type
of storage devices.
This technology really
has a lot of potential.
The performance
improvement are evident.
And the diversity of
applications that can profit
are also very, very large.
Intel Optane DC
Persistent Memory
would bridge the gap between
RAM and solid-state disk
by bringing the
best of both worlds.
We see the potentials.
And that's why we are
collaborating with Intel.
This can be a major breakthrough
in computing technology
in general.
