Name: Heterogeneous Architectures in WLCG
Start: 2025-12-03T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-05T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Heterogeneous Architectures in WLCG

from Wednesday, 3 December 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 5 December 2025 (18:00)

Monday, 1 December 2025
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Wednesday, 3 December 2025

08:00 Welcome coffee & pastries
Welcome coffee & pastries
08:00 - 09:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
09:00 Progress of Experiments and Software Projects: Session A
Session A
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

09:15 LHCb - Federico Stagni (CERN)

09:55 ATLAS - Edward Moyse (University of Massachusetts (US))
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
11:10 Progress of Experiments and Software Projects: Session B
Session B
11:10 - 12:40
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

11:10 ALICE - Irakli Chakaberia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:50 CMS - Charis Kleio Koraka (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
14:00 Progress of Experiments and Software Projects: Session C
Session C
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:00 Adept detector simulation - Severin Diederichs (CERN)

14:30 Celeritas detector simulation - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))

15:00 Root and GPUs - Danilo Piparo (CERN)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
16:00 Progress of Experiments and Software Projects: Session D
Session D
16:00 - 17:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

16:00 Madgraph event generation - Daniele Massaro (CERN)

16:30 Pepper (Sherpa on GPU) event generation - Max Knobbe (Fermilab)
Thursday, 4 December 2025

08:00 Welcome coffee & pastries
Welcome coffee & pastries
08:00 - 09:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
09:00 AI/ML activities
09:00 - 12:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

09:10 ML - experience on inference and training in ATLAS - Xiangyang Ju (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

09:50 Accelerating ML training and Hyperparameter Optimization with HPC - Eric Wulff (CERN)

11:00 Next Generation Triggers Work Package 1: feasible ML inference in grid production - Axel Naumann (CERN)

11:20 CERN ML Infrastructure - Ricardo Rocha (CERN)

11:50 Large Physics Models - Sascha Caron (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
14:00 Offering from Sites and requirements for future provisioning: Offering from Sites and requirements for future provisioning
Offering from Sites and requirements for future provisioning
14:00 - 17:25
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

14:00 Benchmarking - status, plans and key milestones - Domenico Giordano (CERN)

14:30 Experience in Italy and UK - Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Daniele Cesini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

14:50 Experience in Germany - Nikita Shadskiy (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

15:10 Experience at CERN - Ben Jones (CERN)

16:00 Experience in U.S. (CMS) - Dirk Hufnagel (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

16:20 Experience in U.S. (ATLAS) - Rui Wang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

16:40 Provisioning and Pledge Discussion - Dmitry Kondratyev (Purdue University (US)) Rodney Walker (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))
Friday, 5 December 2025

08:00 Welcome coffee & pastries
Welcome coffee & pastries
08:00 - 09:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

09:00 Closing Session

09:00 - 12:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre