ET Industry Computing Workshop

Description of the Workshop:

Einstein Telescope (ET) will be the third-generation European Gravitational Wave detector, a multi-billion € European scientific project supporting thousands of scientists; ET is scheduled to start operations in the early 2040s and will collect scientific data for half a century.

Einstein Telescope is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe and gravity by pushing the boundaries of technology. This ambitious European project is driven by an international collaboration, uniting scientists and technology leaders from around the globe to achieve pioneering discoveries. The Einstein Telescope will explore the Universe through gravitational waves, providing a unique window into cosmic history before stars and galaxies had even formed.

Einstein Telescope will be truly remarkable, so sensitive that it can detect faint gravitational clues even before a spectacular cosmic event happens. To do this it requires sophisticated data processing solutions, to provide alerts in near-real-time to guide other observatories toward the event. Collaboration with technology leaders in big data, cloud computing, and AI is needed to achieve this decades-long scientific endeavour, presenting a uniquely challenging stress test for those technologies. Already the public imagination has been captured by our ability to “see” black holes, ET will be able to see neutron star collisions even before they happen.

This workshop will bring together computing experts from the ET Collaboration and the wider scientific community, researchers in the fields of AI and sustainable computing, and representatives from industry. Although ET will start taking data in the early 2040s, R&D activities are needed now to develop a software and computing paradigm that must be sustained until the end of this century.

Goal of the Workshop:

The main objective of the workshop is to explore potential collaborations with industry.

Opportunities for networking and one-on-one meetings will be organized. One theme of the workshop will be sustainability, looking at upcoming trends in computing technologies, both for hardware and data centre infrastructure. A second theme will be the evolving role of AI in large-scale scientific and research software, looking both at algorithms and at AI-assisted code development.

We very much hope you will take this opportunity to collaborate with ET, a unique scientific project that will capture the human imagination until the end of the decade and inspire generations to come.
We welcome your ideas and invite you to present them, please contact us in advance of the workshop.

More information on the Einstein Telescope proposal can be found here: https://einsteintelescope.eu/about-et/overview
The workshop is jointly organized by the Einstein Telescope Preparatory Phase European Project (ET-PP) and the ET Collaboration e-Infrastructure Board.

ET-PP is a project supported by the European Commission Framework Programme Horizon Europe Coordination and Support action under grant agreement 101079696.

Overview of the Sessions:

In this section of the website you can view the complete timetable with all the details.

Certificate of Attendance
For those who need it, a digital Certificate of Attendance will be available after the event by contacting the secretariat at the following e-mail address: et-computing-ws-secretariat@lists.pd.infn.it

Online participation
The workshop is intended for interaction between participants, so in person participation is highly preferred. Information on online participation can be requested from et-computing-ws-secretariat@lists.pd.infn.it