Workshop on computing strategy

Name: Workshop on computing strategy
Start: 2026-09-23T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-24T17:00:00+02:00
Location: CEA/Saclay IRFU

23 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 24 Sept 2026, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

CEA/Saclay IRFU

Wednesday 23 September
- Wed 23 Sept
- Thu 24 Sept
- 09:00 → 12:00
  Calculation at scale
  
  The challenges of new projects and experiments involving large-volume data computations, and the importance of HPC
  - 09:00
    
    Introduction 30m
  - 09:30
    
    Challenges in HPC in Astrophysics 30m
  - 10:00
    
    Challenges in HPC - Performance portability and the Kokkos framework 30m
  - 10:30
    
    Break 30m
  - 11:00
    
    Challenges in HPDA for Astrophysics : the SKA case 30m
  - 11:30
    
    Challenges in HPDA - Computer science 30m
- 13:30 → 16:30
  Infrastructures: HPC / HTC / Cloud
  
  Future infrastructures: heterogeneous architectures, accessibility, data distribution.
  - 13:30
    
    Cloud infrastructures (Infrastructure as a Service), accessibility, workflow management 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Ricardo Rocha (CERN)
  - 14:05
    
    SVOM infrastructure 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Henri LOUVIN (CEA IRFU)
  - 14:40
    
    SKA Regional Center Network infrastructure 30m
    
    Speaker: David Corre (CEA IRFU)
  - 15:15
    
    Distributed scientific computing ecosystem in France 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Michel JOUVIN (IJCLab)
Thursday 24 September
- Wed 23 Sept
- Thu 24 Sept
- 09:00 → 11:00
  Software Development
  
  the challenges of software development in the context of large-scale experiments (collaborations) and long project timescales.
  - 09:00
    
    Software development: from code to software 40m
    
    Speaker: Nicolas Dagoneau (CEA)
    
    computing_strategy_WS_202609.pptx
  - 09:40
    
    Break 20m
  - 10:00
    
    Modern packaging 40m
    
    Speaker: Benoît Martin (CEA/MdS)
- 11:00 → 12:00
  
  Round Table: agentic AI and workflows
  
  The challenges of IA in future infrastructures and services
  
  Conveners: Jerome Bobin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Dr Thierry Deutsch (CEA/Grenoble)
- 13:30 → 16:30
  Online Data Pipelines and Onboard Software
  
  Future challenges of online computing, and trends in software development for specific hardware.
  - 13:30
    
    Introduction 5m
    
    Speakers: Mehmet Ozgur Sahin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Shebli Anvar (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
  - 13:35
    
    Data-processing in LHCb at 30 MHz 35m
    
    Speaker: Dorothea Vom Bruch (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)
  - 14:10
    
    Microseconds to nanoseconds, edge processing for LHC and Future Accelerators 35m
    
    Speaker: Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))
  - 14:45
    
    Break 10m
  - 14:55
    
    Astrometry with the Habitable World Observatory, the challenge of on-board processing 35m
  - 15:30
    
    Future High-Performance Test Benches for Development, Validation & Production 35m
    
    Speaker: Shebli Anvar (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))