The heartbeat of a machine can be seen in many locations - in this case, in the monitoring of temperatures inside the #cern#lhc magnet power connectors using #grafana and #timescale
These connectors interface between the outside world and the cosmically cold cryogenics of the superconductor inside. If not monitored and heated, they can freeze and form ice and dew!
As the machine ramps power up and down, so do their temperatures, forming an imprint of the daily operations in the graphs.
And after adding in the complete set of all #Cern#lhc Power Lead temperature sensors, the graph now looks far more stellar!
With 220 sensors providing data we are helping keep the accelerator's #superconductor magnets safely powered - and the data it generates looks absolutely fantastic as well
This graph here no longer shows a plot per individual sensor, but rather a heatmap of all sensors - beautifully visualising the operational heartbeat with #timescale and #grafana for plots <3
Update. For the same reasons, experiments on rare and expensive pieces of equipment carry intrinsic incentives to ensure #OpenData. Failing to open the data essentially rules out #replication.
Large Hadron Collider may be closing in on the universe's missing antimatter (www.space.com)
Those shifty quarks are at it again....