ET Industry Computing Workshop

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026
AM
09:30
Registration (until 10:30)
10:30
Welcome and introduction: Einstein Telescope Computing Challenges (until 10:50)
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 - Dr Stefano Bagnasco (INFN Torino)  
10:50
Session I: The Infrastructure - Luciano Gaido (INFN Torino) (until 12:10) (Colloquium room)
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  
09:30
Session IV: AI for data analysis - Melissa Lopez (Utrecht University and Nikhef) (until 11:10) (Colloquium room)
09:30 State of the art of AI adoption in the GW domain - Dr 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 ---
11:40
Panel discussion (until 13:00)
PM
12:10 --- Lunch ---
13:10
Session II: HW and Architectures trends & evolution - Stefano Bagnasco (INFN Torino) (until 15:15) (Colloquium room)
13:10 From Prototypes to a Resilient European Compute Supply Chain: Building a RISC-V Umbrella Community - Prof. 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 - Dr 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 - Dr 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 ---
15:40
Session III: AI for code development - Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Dr Duncan Macleod (Cardiff University) (until 17:50) (Colloquium room)
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 - Dr 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 ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
13:55
Computer/datacenter visits (until 15:20)
14:00 AMS-IX  
14:00 Nikhef Tier 1 computercenter  
14:00 SURF HPC center, National Supercomputer  
14:00
1:1 meetings (until 15:00) (Colloquium room)