Name: 2026 CERN openlab Technical Workshop
Start: 2026-03-04T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-05T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

2026 CERN openlab Technical Workshop

from Wednesday, 4 March 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 5 March 2026 (18:00)
CERN (500/1-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

4 Mar 2026

5 Mar 2026

09:00	--- Registration ---
09:30	Welcome & Workshop Goals (until 09:40)
09:30	Welcome & Workshop Goals
09:40	Infrastructures and Techniques for AI and HPC (until 11:00)
09:40	Commercial Off the Shelf Data Acquisition for the HiLumi era - Niko Neufeld (CERN)
10:00	The Next Generation Triggers Project
10:20	Anomaly Detection for Ultra Low Latency Event Selection at the LHC (ATLAS)
10:40	Investigation of Anomaly Detection algorithms for filtering events with microseconds latency in the ATLAS hardware-level trigger
11:00	--- Coffee break ---
11:30	Infrastructures and Techniques for AI and HPC (until 12:30)
11:30	Anomaly Detection for Ultra Low Latency Event Selection at the LHC (CMS) - Elias Leutgeb (CERN)
11:50	Investigations on NVIDIA Holoscan
12:10	Full event interpretation with MLPF reconstruction in the CMS detector and future perspectives

09:00	Storage (until 11:00)
09:00	Keynote: The HPC challenge of radio astronomy
09:30	Storage challenges at HL-LHC - TBC
10:00	Filesystem Scaling Technologies (Exa) (Pure Storage)
10:20	Next-Generation Exascale Flash Storage
10:40	QLC explained and Data archival on SSD (PureStorage)
11:00	--- Coffee break ---
11:30	Storage (until 12:40)
11:30	Ceph scaling strategies for machine learning workloads
11:50	Overview by Cerabyte - TBC
12:10	Evaluation of Cerabyte – archival data storage technology using ceramic nanolayers

12:30	--- Lunch + Group Photo ---
14:00	Heterogeneous Computing, Platforms and HPC (until 15:40)
14:00	Overview by NVIDIA - TBC
14:30	Overview of the LHCb Allen project - Vava Gligorov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
14:50	Porting and Performance Assessment of a Gravitational N-body code on the RISC-V-Based Tenstorrent Wormhole accelerator - Elisabetta Boella (E4 Computer Engineering SpA)
15:20	Heterogeneous Architectures Testbed (HAT) - Joaquim Santos (CERN) Jessy Sobreiro Albane Carcenac
15:40	--- Coffee break ---
16:10	Heterogeneous Computing, Platforms and HPC (until 17:00)
16:10	Benchmarking and energy measurements
16:30	Overview by Intel - TBC
17:00	--- Welcome Cocktail ---

12:40	--- Lunch ---
13:40	Digital Twins (until 14:40)
13:40	Imperial College London work on Digital Twins - TBC
14:00	BioDynaMo: Biology Dynamics Modeller - Stavros Portokalidis
14:20	Digital Twin Engine for Science (Johnson & Johnson)
14:40	Computing Architectures and Software Engineering (until 15:00)
14:40	Overview by Siemens - TBC
15:00	--- Coffee break ---
15:30	Computing Architectures and Software Engineering (until 15:50)
15:30	Next Generation Archiver for WinCC OA
15:50	Heterogeneous Computing, Platforms and HPC (until 16:30)
15:50	Oracle Kubernetes Operator - Antonio Nappi (CERN)
16:10	Cost optimization and sustainability for public cloud provider (Carbon Aware FinOps) - Laura Eve Sarah Llinares
16:30	Infrastructures and Techniques for AI and HPC (until 17:40)
16:30	Overview by Oracle - TBC
17:00	Industrial Edge-Cloud and AI-based Agents
17:20	Geometric Quantum Machine Learning with Neutral Atoms (Pasqal)
17:40	Closing remarks (until 17:50)
17:40	Closing remarks

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