Conveners
Fast & Furious: Research Edition: 3A
- Anca Hienola (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
Description
Strap in for a high-speed ride through the world of research networking! From deep-sea cables to black holes and stormy weather, this session explores how cutting-edge networks fuel fast, data-intensive research. When data moves at the speed of light (literally), challenges like security risks, infrastructure gaps, and massive data volumes can make or break a project. But with trusted environments, smarter architectures, and faster validation techniques, the research community is shifting into high gear. Whether it’s saving the planet, decoding the universe, or outpacing the next storm, this session proves that in research, speed isn’t just thrilling—it’s essential.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an international collaboration of 11 telescopes and two correlator sites capturing groundbreaking images of black holes. Traditionally, data collected during observations is stored on physical disks and shipped to processing facilities, causing delays in confirming telescope configurations. This new precheck demonstration leverages high-speed research and...
Fibre Optic Sensing (FOS) exploits fibres’ exceptional sensitivity to subtle changes in acoustics, strain, pressure, and temperature. Integrator instruments, AI assisted signal analytics and event fingerprinting, can monitor earthquakes, tsunamis, global environment, marine health, critical infrastructure, ocean vessels movements and more, in real time. The massive volumes of nontrivial...
Given the increasing frequency of severe weather events globally, the need for accurate and reliable weather forecasts, relying on Near Real-Time (NRT) data, has become more critical than ever. This presentation explores EUMETSAT's EUMETCast Terrestrial service, delivered over GÉANT networks, providing high-quality NRT meteorological data. It highlights the technical implementation of...
