Luigi Cruz

The Universe isn't always so quiet: neutron stars, fast radio bursts, and potentially alien civilizations emit bursts of electromagnetic energy - radio transients - into the unknown. In some cases, these emissions, like with pulsars, are constant and periodic; but in others, like with fast radio bursts, they're short in duration and infrequent.

From radio telescopes to proton accelerators, scientific instruments produce tremendous amounts of data at equally high rates. To handle this data deluge and to ensure the fidelity of the instruments’ observations, architects have historically written measurements to disk, enabling downstream scientists and researchers to build applications with pre-recorded files.