Sciences
For experiments at the edge of what can be measured.
Quasar provides the data infrastructure for high-energy physics, fusion, advanced materials, large-scale instruments, and experimental facilities where volume, resolution, timing, and correctness cannot be traded against one another.
The Challenge: At the Bleeding Edge
Frontier experiments do not produce clean, uniform data.
Detectors, instruments, control systems, simulations, and environmental sensors operate at different rates and resolutions. Some signals evolve slowly. Others arrive as dense bursts measured at nanosecond, picosecond, or finer precision. The meaning of an event often emerges only after those observations are aligned and reconstructed.
Traditional scientific architectures fragment that process. One system captures the run. Files preserve the raw output.
Other systems hold metadata, indexes, calibration data, and derived results. Researchers then spend time moving, reshaping, and reconciling data before they can analyze the experiment.
At this scale, every compromise matters. Discarding data can remove the signal you were looking for. Reducing precision can make it impossible to order events. Separating capture from analysis delays the result and adds operational complexity.
The data architecture limits the experiment.
Why Quasar
Quasar is built for experiments where the data is too large, too precise, or too valuable to flatten into files, summaries, or disconnected systems.
It ingests high-rate numerical data as the experiment runs, preserves the full dataset, and keeps it available for immediate and historical analysis.
Quasar brings together
Continuous and burst ingestion
Low-frequency controls and high-frequency detector signals
Precise event ordering across clocks and instruments
Native support for high-resolution timestamps
Lossless storage for integers and floating-point values
Experiment metadata, calibration data, and numerical observations
Analytical queries across current and previous runs
Its adaptive Delta4C compression keeps large numerical datasets economical without moving compression outside the live data path. Quasar can preserve exact values while sustaining multi-GiB/s throughput.
Quasar gives research teams one system for experiment capture, reconstruction, and analysis at full scale.
Results at Scale
Multi petabyte-scale experimental data
Distributed storage keeps complete experiment history available instead of reducing each run to selected outputs.
Full-fidelity numerical storage
Quasar preserves integer and floating-point values bit for bit, including the precision needed for scientific reconstruction.
High-rate ingestion with live compression
Delta4C sustains multi-GiB/s throughput while adapting compression to changing data regimes.
From capture to analysis without rebuilding the data
Researchers can work directly with complete experiment data instead of first reconstructing it from files, indexes, and secondary systems.
Battle-tested in high-stakes research environments
Quasar has been battle-tested by some of the world’s most demanding research organizations, including laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy, for large-scale experiment capture and analysis where throughput, precision, and correctness cannot be compromised.