Does it Compute? 2025

Session

Morning Sessions

1

Oct 30, 2025, 9:00 AM

Auditorium (Feringa Building)

Conveners

Morning Sessions: Keynotes

• David Visscher (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

7. Opening and Welcome (main-1-7)

David Visscher (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

10/30/25, 9:00 AM

Main Track

An opening and welcome to Does it Compute?

Here we'll give an overview of the event, house rules, and schedule.

5. Something in the water (main-1-5)

Wim Nap (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

10/30/25, 9:15 AM

Main Track

Wim takes us through a tour of how HPC and creativity are connected. We'll see how HPC is creatively employed, and what we can do to keep the creativity flowing.

1. Computer Labs at Scale: Cattle, not Pets (main-1-1)

Brian Setz (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

10/30/25, 10:15 AM

Main Track

Gone are the days of carefully maintained computer lab machines ("pets"); today's computational demands require computer labs that are elastic, cloud-native, infrastructure-as-code environments ("cattle"). This talk explores how the University of Groningen's innovation team, the Digital Lab, has transformed traditional computer labs into modern on-premise cloud-first computer labs. We will...

10. The future of HPC: Trends and upcoming challenges (main-1-10)

Dirk Pleiter (University of Groningen)

10/30/25, 11:15 AM

Main Track

At the European level, significant investments in HPC systems are continuing. This opens opportunities for addressing various grand challenges in science and society. In this talk we will review some selected trends and, in particular, discuss various challenges to further progress on providing HPC resources and services as well as to facilitate their efficient exploitation for relevant...