Progress Software has announced that scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider project have used the Progress Sonicmq enterprise messaging system.
Sonicmq was chosen by officials at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) to form the communications backbone of its Technical Infrastructure Monitoring (Tim) system, designed to alert researchers in the event of an emergency.
The Tim network is used to collect, evaluate, store and distribute information around the clock, to ensure the smooth running of the world's largest physics laboratory.
Sonicmq allows the system to immediately alert operators in the control centre if there is a project-threatening disruption, such as a fire, cooling system failure or technical breakdown.
Peter Sollander, technical infrastructure operations section leader at the project, said: 'We chose Sonicmq to form the communications backbone of our technical infrastructure monitoring for its performance and scalability and for its flexible configuration options.
'We also received the highest level of support from Progress Software.
'The system must never go down - we are online 365 days of the year, 24 hours a day.' The system is central to helping the Tim system to process 2.1 million items every day from 150 systems and 50,000 measuring points.
It unites disparate data and systems without hampering CERN's research efforts.
'Sonicmq features a message delivery system that ensures information is never lost due to software, network or hardware failure,' said Dr Giles Nelson, chief technical officer of Progress Software, EMEA.
