Large Data Acquisition and Analytics at Synchrotron Radiation Facilities

The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) has announced the design, deployment, and evaluation of a data acquisition and analytics framework deployed on a secure CHESS server.

• Framework deployment: Implemented across three beamlines (ID3A, ID3B, ID4B); managed 50–100 TB of data and over 10 million files in late 2024; tested with 43 research groups and 86 dashboards to support remote monitoring and data-quality assessment.
• Context and metadata: The paper documents real-time, web-based tools for experiment monitoring and streamlined data workflows; submitted to arXiv on 5 Feb 2026 and listed as Accepted at IEEE BigDataW 2025; DOI issued via DataCite (arXiv DOI link provided).