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2026 CERN openlab Technical Workshop

from Wednesday, 4 March 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 5 March 2026 (20:30)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026
AM
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:30
Welcome & Workshop Goals -Dr Maria Girone (CERN) (until 09:40)
09:30 Welcome & Workshop Goals - Dr Maria Girone (CERN)  
09:40
Infrastructures and Techniques for AI and HPC -Dr Maria Girone (CERN) (until 10:40)
09:40 Openlab for CERN R&D: the Next Generation Triggers project - Axel Naumann (CERN)  
10:00 Commercial Off the Shelf Data Acquisition for the HiLumi era - Niko Neufeld (CERN)  
10:20 Anomaly Detection for Ultra Low Latency Event Selection at the LHC (ATLAS) - Paula Martinez Suarez (CERN)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Infrastructures and Techniques for AI and HPC - Thomas Owen James (CERN) (until 12:40)
11:10 Investigation of Anomaly Detection algorithms for filtering events with microseconds latency in the ATLAS hardware-level trigger - Tara Tahseen (UCL)  
11:30 A transformer on FPGA for low latency applications in particle physics and beyond - Elias Leutgeb (CERN)  
11:50 Full event interpretation with MLPF reconstruction in the CMS detector - Eric Wulff (CERN)  
12:05 NVidia Holoscan-based R&D for the trigger - Ioannis Xiotidis (CERN)  
12:25 From Specialized Algorithms to Foundation Models - Eric Wulff (CERN)  
09:30
Storage - Luca Mascetti (CERN) (until 11:20)
09:30 Data and Computing Challenges in Experiment Upgrades: the ALICE case - Andreas Morsch (CERN)  
10:10 Building Scalable Flash Storage with Pure EXA - Ethan Miller (Pure Storage)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Next-Generation Exascale Flash Storage - Ruhi Choudhury (CERN)  
11:20
Storage - Luca Mascetti (CERN) (until 12:45)
11:20 Towards Archival Storage Using QLC Flash - Ethan Miller (Pure Storage)  
11:40 Ceph Scaling Strategies for Machine Learning Workloads - Radomir Michal Wasowski (CERN)  
12:00 Cerabyte - Building the Ecosystem - Steffen Hellmold (Cerabyte)  
12:30 Evaluation of Cerabyte technology - summary of activities in 2025 - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)  
PM
12:40 --- Lunch + Group Photo ---
13:45
Heterogeneous Computing, Platforms and HPC - Thomas Owen James (CERN) (until 15:45)
13:45 Keynote: The HPC challenge of radio astronomy - Dr Emma Elizabeth Tolley (EPFL)  
14:05 Powering AI Inference from Edge to Cloud for Modern Business - Jean-Laurent Philippe (Intel) Nisha Patel (Intel)  
14:35 Overview of the LHCb Allen project - Vava Gligorov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
14:55 An overview of AI projects at CERN with applications in industry - Sioni Paris Summers (CERN)  
15:15 Porting and Performance Assessment of a Gravitational N-body code on the RISC-V-Based Tenstorrent Wormhole accelerator - Elisabetta Boella (E4 Computer Engineering SpA)  
15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:15
Heterogeneous Computing, Platforms and HPC - Luca Atzori (CERN) (until 17:35)
16:15 NVIDIA Data Center Platform Update - Sebastian Kalcher (NVIDIA)  
16:45 Heterogeneous Architectures Testbed (HAT) - Jessy Sobreiro (CERN) Albane Carcenac (CERN)  
17:05 HEPScore Suite Enhancements: Power Metrics and GPU Integration - Robin Hofsaess (CERN) Natalia Diana Szczepanek (CERN)  
17:25 Towards unified full-stack performance analysis and automated computer system design with Adaptyst - Maksymilian Graczyk (CERN)  
17:35 --- Networking Cocktail & 25th Anniversary Celebration ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:40
Computing Architectures and Software Engineering - Eric Wulff (CERN) (until 14:20)
13:40 BioDynaMo: Recent Developments and Future Directions - Stavros Portokalidis (CERN)  
14:00 Next Generation Archiver for WinCC OA: Status & Outlook - Nikita Nekhotyachshiy (CERN)  
14:20
Infrastructures and Techniques for AI and HPC - Eric Wulff (CERN) (until 14:40)
14:20 An overview on Virtualized PLCs and Agentic AI for Industrial Control Systems - Filippo Berto (CERN)  
14:40
Heterogeneous Computing, Platforms and HPC - Antonio Nappi (CERN) (until 15:10)
14:40 Oracle: Embracing Open Source and AI - Matteo Malvezzi (Oracle) Marco Stefanetti (Oracle) John Lathouwers (Oracle)  
15:10 --- Coffee break ---
15:40
Heterogeneous Computing, Platforms and HPC - Antonio Nappi (CERN) (until 16:20)
15:40 Modernization of Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) for Kubernetes - Thomas Saury (CERN)  
16:00 Carbon-Aware FinOps for On-Premises and Public Cloud - Laura Eve Sarah Llinares (CERN)  
16:20
Computing Architectures and Software Engineering - Eric Wulff (CERN) (until 16:40)
16:20 Building a Digital twin of the CMS ECAL - Haotian Li (Imperial College London) Shuwen Zheng (Imperial College London)  
16:40
Infrastructures and Techniques for AI and HPC - Eric Wulff (CERN) (until 17:00)
16:40 Geometric Quantum Machine Learning with Neutral Atoms (Pasqal) - Jogi Suda Neto (University of Alabama (US))  
17:00
Closing remarks (until 17:10)
17:00 Closing Remarks - Dr Maria Girone (CERN)