Speaker
Description
The real-time processing of data created by the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) experiments, amounting to over 10% of worldwide internet traffic, is one of the greatest computing challenges ever attempted. I will discuss the concrete applications of real-time processing in the LHC's main experiments, and the technological innovations in this area over the past decades. I will also reflect on the development of communities focused on real-time data processing in experimental HEP, and describe the ways in which these communities have expanded the physics reach of their experiments far beyond what had been originally imagined. Finally I will look ahead to the challenges facing the LHC experiments in the high-luminosity era of the LHC, and touch on ways in which the widespread availability of precision timing in our detectors will transform real-time processing in the next decades.
