Tackling Computing Challenges @CERN

Girone: My talk is going to be about what we do and how we process big data and what the challenges are around this. I will be giving a short introduction of CERN. How many people know about CERN here? Ok, so I'll skip the introduction maybe. I will then concentrate on computing and describe a little bit the challenges and the environment that today we work on. Most of my talk is going to be about what comes next in terms of machine, the machine is going to be upgraded, and computing and storage needs, which already are huge today, are going to go even higher. I'm going to discuss a little bit how we have started our R&D program about this. CERN is certainly a wonderful place to work. It has been created, founded by the member states of Europe just after the Second World War to give the opportunity to physicists, scientists, in general, to come together after a big war and work together. This is actually what we still do today. It has been built across two different countries.