CINECA Introduction to HPC principles and Leonardo

In this short lecture will be presented an overview of the general state of art of the world of High Performance Computing, focusing on the present technologies and with a glimpse of the future.

CINECA, national consortium aimed at providing HPC resources for academical and industrial research, will discuss the infrastructure that can be made available to their users, with a major focus on Leonardo, the pre-exascale cluster ranked among the first ten most performant supercomputers in the World.

Speaker

Antonio De Nicola – CINECA HPC

I earned my Master’s in Chemistry and completed a PhD in 2014, focusing on molecular modeling of biological systems and composite materials. My expertise lies in the computational study of soft-matter systems, where I developed Coarse-Graining models and enhanced Molecular-Dynamics code for particle-field interactions. From 2018 to 2021, I served as an Assistant Professor at Yamagata University, leading a corporate project with Borealis AG to optimize polymer production through computational methods. In 2021, I returned to Italy to join Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples as a researcher. Since April 2024, I have been part of the CINECA family in the HPC group.

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A. De Nicola (CINECA)