8 December 2026, KIT Amsterdam

Advanced Computing
User Day

Learn from other users, gain inspiration, hear latest developments, and connect with like-minded professionals from the research and business fields.

8 December 2026

Advanced Computing User Day 2026

The annual gathering of the Dutch advanced computing community. A full day dedicated to knowledge sharing, research and connection — completely free to attend.

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Tuesday, 8 December 2026

KIT Amsterdam

Free admission

About the event

Where the advanced computing community comes together

ACUD 2026 brings together researchers, HPC users, engineers and professionals from across the Netherlands for a full day of knowledge exchange. Whether you work on HPC infrastructure, run compute-intensive research workflows or focus on making advanced computing more accessible: this event is for you.

Speakers

Speakers from across the European advanced computing community share insights into scientific impact and new ways of working.

Parallel sessions

Three thematic tracks covering infrastructure, applications and user experience, featuring presentations and interactive group discussions.

Networking

Meet peers from across the Netherlands during lunch, at the demo stations and at the closing networking reception.

Demo stations

Discover tools, platforms and solutions during lunch and connect directly with the teams behind them.

Programme tracks

Three tracks. One community.

ACUD 2026 will centre around three thematic tracks. Throughout the afternoon, each track will feature parallel presentations and open discussions.

HPC infrastructure and platforms

From system design and procurement to management, scheduling and middleware. Cluster configurations, storage architectures, cloud-HPC integrations, platform migrations and lessons learned from operating large-scale systems.

Applications, workflows and use cases

How do researchers and engineers use advanced computing in practice? Stories from different disciplines about scientific breakthroughs enabled by computing power, workflow optimisation, solved scalability challenges and multidisciplinary collaborations.

User experience and engagement

The human side of HPC. Support models, onboarding, training programmes, community building and everything that helps users get more from advanced computing infrastructure.

Location and accessibility

Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam

KIT was built in the early twentieth century as the home of the Royal Tropical Institute and is now one of Amsterdam's most iconic venues for international dialogue and knowledge exchange.