CERN openlab

🔍 How does CERN openlab work? Did you know that CERN openlab organises its research and development activities into three-year phases? Each phase provides a framework for collaboration between CERN, industry partners and research institutions, where we define shared R&D priorities. 🔜 We are approaching the end of Phase VIII (2024–2026), which has focused on two main R&D directions: 🌱 Sustainable Infrastructures: exploring more efficient and sustainable computing solutions to support scientific research. 💻 Emerging Technologies: investigating innovative technologies to address the computing challenges of tomorrow. 🚀 What's next? We're already working with our partners and the CERN community to shape Phase IX (2027–2029), identifying new technological challenges and defining the research priorities that will guide our next three years of collaboration. 👉 Swipe through to learn more about how CERN openlab works and stay tuned for what's coming next! #ScientificComputing #Innovation #ResearchAndDevelopment #Collaboration

🚀💡 Looking back at one of this summer’s CERN openlab student projects! During the 2026 CERN openlab Summer Student Programme, Suhani Bansal worked on BEAM (Benchmarking, Evaluation & Automated Metrics), an internal platform used to monitor, manage and report on the computing infrastructure of the CERN openlab systems team. 💻 Her project focused on improving how the team monitors the health and utilisation of compute nodes, bringing together telemetry and information from different CERN systems into a centralized platform. 👩💻 Suhani’s participation in the programme was specially sponsored by ideas4HPC (https://elle-it.ch/), a not-for-profit association promoting diversity and inclusion of women and other under-represented groups in High Performance Computing (HPC) and large-scale computing. A big thank you to ideas4HPC for helping CERN openlab to support the next generation of women in HPC! 🔎 Curious to learn more? You can watch Suhani’s Lightning Talk here: https://lnkd.in/eEK6XBzc 📢 Interested in joining us next summer? Applications for the 2027 CERN openlab Summer Student Programme will open soon. Follow us here for the upcoming dates and application deadlines! #HPC #WomenInHPC

🎤 CERN openlab at the Brevitas Quantization Workshop! Yesterday, our Oracle co-funded project on anomaly detection for ultra-low-latency event selection at the LHC was presented at CERN, covering both the ATLAS and CMS tracks: 🔸 Paula Martínez Suárez (ATLAS Collaboration) shared essons from Run 3, a retrospective look at the first anomaly detection algorithms implemented in the ATLAS Level-1 trigger. 🔸 Elias Leutgeb presented how to run a transformer, the architecture behind today’s large language models, on AMD Versal AI Engines, with CMS Collaboration L1 Scouting as the target use case. Learn more about the project here: 🔗 ATLAS: https://lnkd.in/eupgMR7m 🔗 CMS: https://lnkd.in/ejA6dNcd #CERNopenlab #AnomalyDetection #FPGA #ScientificComputing

📣New leadership for the EuroHPC User Forum Coordination Group 👇 Sinead Ryan from Trinity College Dublin was elected as the new Chair, while Maria Girone from CERN has been re-elected as Vice-Chair. 👏 We thank outgoing Chair, Chris RichardsonChris Richardson, for his commitment since the UFCG was established in 2024 and for his contribution to strengthening the EuroHPC user community. The UFCG plays an important role in connecting #EuroHPC users, gathering feedback and supporting dialogue on the development of Europe’s HPC ecosystem. Read more:🔗https://lnkd.in/d88CaTy5 👇📸Members of the UFCG (L to R): Ivan Carnimeo, Andrius Popovas, Massimo Bocus, Sinead Ryan, Maria Girone, Chris Richardson, Sinead RyanSinead Ryan, Lara Peeters, Eleni Briola

⏪ Let's rewind to the 2026 CERN openlab Summer Student Programme! We're giving three more students the spotlight with another round of our 20 Seconds Challenge! 🚀 This time, Shahd, Daniel Galván Cancio and James B. take on the challenge of explaining their projects in just 20 seconds: 🤖 Shahd: "Extending the hls4ml Backend for PandA/Bambu" 💻 Daniel: "Git-Based Declarative Configuration for the CTA Catalogue" ⚡ James: "Container Checkpointing for Interactive and Batch/ML Workloads" And if 20 seconds aren't enough, you can dive deeper into their projects by watching their full lightning talks: 🎥 Shahd → https://lnkd.in/euuiZkgP 🎥 Daniel → https://lnkd.in/eRbQbJBN 🎥 James → https://lnkd.in/eJxdyDYK 📢 Feeling inspired? You could be part of the next CERN openlab Summer Student Programme! Applications for the 2027 edition will open in November 2026. Keep an eye on our website and LinkedIn page for updates! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/daq3TtSB #CERNopenlab #SummerStudentProgramme

This one is really dear to me, from a coffee in Zürich with Nikos Konstantinidis, after an exciting talk from Adam Thompson, the countless meetings with David Miller and Thorsten at #CERN, all the way to the endless work hours with Noah Clarke Hall, Mark Larson and Ramya Gurunathan for getting the project off the ground. A-GHOST has been submitted for publication and is already on the arxiv! Really excited for what we achieved and the many more exciting steps ahead of us! Special thanks to CERN openlab and the whole team at NVIDIA #DAQIRI. https://lnkd.in/eykp5yVe

Heterogeneous architectures will play a central role in the future of computing. We're excited to be heading into a deployment of Signaloid's distribution-extended compute hardware (UxHw®) at CERN openlab, as part of the CERN openlab Heterogeneous Architectures Testbed. Over the coming months, we will work with teams at CERN to evaluate UxHw for key high-energy physics compute for the future High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HiLumi LHC). Full press release: https://lnkd.in/eiZw-Hwu #HPC #CERN #FutureOfComputing #LHC #Science #ParticlePhysics

🇮🇪 CERN openlab at the #EuroHPCUserDays! Last week, Maria Girone, Head of CERN openlab and Vice-Chair of the EuroHPC User Forum Coordination Group (UFCG), took part in the EuroHPC User Days 2026 in Dublin. 💻 As part of the plenary panel “User Requirements for Grand Challenge Science”, Maria shared CERN’s perspective on the growing computing demands of the #HiLumiLHC and the importance of collaboration across the EuroHPC user community to make the best use of Europe’s supercomputing resources. Thank you to EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and everyone involved in this year’s User Days!