CERN and the synoptic telescopes have identical issues. They collect petabytes a year and re-analyze it later. CERN only saves about one in billion "interesting" events. A physicist might suggest a new decay model. Then a grad student might search for its signature in the recorded billions of events.
[...] Gonzalo Merino, the IceCube computing facilities manager at UW-Madison, wrote in an unencrypted email.