Name: ET Industry Computing Workshop
Start: 2026-04-14T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-15T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Nikhef, Amsterdam

ET Industry Computing Workshop

from Tuesday, 14 April 2026 (09:30) to Wednesday, 15 April 2026 (19:00)

Monday, 13 April 2026
Tuesday, 14 April 2026

09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:30
10:30 Welcome and introduction: Einstein Telescope Computing Challenges
10:30 - 10:50
Contributions

10:30 Welcome to Nikhef and to the ET Industry Computing Workshop 2026 - Rob Van Der Meer (Nikhef)

10:35 Welcome and introduction: Einstein Telescope Computing Challenges - Stefano Bagnasco (INFN Torino)
10:50 Session I: The Infrastructure
10:50 - 12:10
Room: Colloquium room
Contributions

10:50 Cooling the Future: Data Center Strategy Toward 2030 - Wil Wellington (Lenovo)

11:10 Towards sustainable data centres at CERN - Olof Barring (CERN)

11:30 The Green IT Cube @ GSI - Volker Lindenstruth (Goethe-University Frankfurt, FIAS, GSI, HFHF)

11:50 Discussion
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:10
Room: Vertex
13:10 Session II: HW and Architectures trends & evolution
13:10 - 15:15
Room: Colloquium room
Contributions

13:10 From Prototypes to a Resilient European Compute Supply Chain: Building a RISC-V Umbrella Community - Robert Birke (University of Torino)

13:30 Evolving HPC Architectures: From CPU-Centric to Post-GPU Systems - Marta Garcia-Gasulla (Barcelona Supercomputing Center - BSC)

13:50 Applications of quantum computing in the ET timescale - Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

14:10 Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Big Science Experiment: The Einstein Telescope - Daniele Gregori (E4 Computer Engineering)

14:30 Discussion

14:50 Pitch presentation from Supermicro - Robin Kuepers (SUPERMICRO)

14:55 Pitch presentation from IQM Quantum Computers - Ulrich Meier (IQM Quantum Computers)

15:00 Pitch presentation from Sanitas EG Srl - Sandro Pastore (Sanitas EG S.r.l.)

15:05 Pitch presentation from Reply - Dario Salerni (REPLY)

15:10 Pitch presentation from Network Research Belgium (NRB) - Marc Delincé (Network Research Belgium (NRB))
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:40
Room: Vertex
15:40 Session III: AI for code development
15:40 - 17:50
Room: Colloquium room
Contributions

15:40 ET Computing and Software Challenges 101 - Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH))

15:50 AI-assisted code development: LIGO experience - Chad Hanna (Penn State)

16:10 AI-assisted code development: Experience from ATLAS (a personal perspective) - Attila Krasznahorkay (University of Massachusetts (US))

16:30 GitHub and AI-assisted code development - Suzanne Daniels (Microsoft)

16:50 Guided discussion - Duncan Macleod (Cardiff University) Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH))

17:20 Pitch presentations from S[&]T - Patrick Vannoort (S[&]T)
19:30 Social Dinner at Restaurant de Kop van Oost
Social Dinner at Restaurant de Kop van Oost
19:30 - 22:00
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
09:30 Session IV: AI for data analysis
09:30 - 11:10
Room: Colloquium room
Contributions

09:30 State of the art of AI adoption in the GW domain - David Benjamin Keitel (University of the Balearic Islands)

10:10 Scientific challenges in the Einstein Telescope era - Melissa Lopez (Utrecht University and Nikhef)

10:30 Experiences with Kaggle - Rodrigo Tenorio (Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca)

10:50 AI in fundamental physics: strategy & future directions - Sascha Caron (Nikhef)
11:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:10 - 11:40
Room: Vertex

11:40 Panel discussion

11:40 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Vertex
13:55 Computer/datacenter visits: Computer/datacenter visits
Computer/datacenter visits
13:55 - 15:20
Contributions

14:00 Nikhef Tier 1 computercenter

14:00 AMS-IX

14:00 SURF HPC center, National Supercomputer
14:00 1:1 meetings

14:00 - 15:00
Room: Colloquium room