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Contribution to EXA2GREEN
The IBM team will be heavily involved in designing and proposing energy aware performance metrics and energy efficient building-block algorithms. The goal is dual: promote energy friendly algorithms for HPC and at the same time understand and propose the characteristics of energy efficient HPC platforms. The team will analyze a series of key algorithmic dwarfs (Berkeley Dwarfs - numeric and non-numeric) and propose energy aware/efficient implementations. Other partners will utilize the developed metrics and the basic algorithms to promote their tasks.
Dr. Costas Bekas
E-mail: bek@zurich.ibm.com
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Dr. Alessandro Curioni
Background and research/work focus:
Alessandro is the Manager of the Computational Sciences Group and Member of IBM Academy of Technology. He received his diploma in Theoretical Chemistry and PhD in Computational Materials Science at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. Alessandro joined IBM Research - Zurich in 1998 as Research Staff Member in the Computational Biochemistry and Materials Science Group. Since then he has developed and applied advanced computational methods to the study of materials issues related to IBM core and exploratory technologies and to the investigation of important molecular processes in the Life Sciences. In 2007 he has been appointed as the Manager of the Computational Science Group. He is a world expert in high performance computing and a major developer of the highly popular CPMD code. Currently he is actively involved in the scale-out of Deep Computing applications on novel massively parallel computers such as BlueGene as well as on critical power performance characteristics.
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Dr. Costas Bekas
Background and research/work focus:
Costas works as a Research Staff Member in the Computational Sciences Group. He received his B. Eng., Msc and PhD, all from the Computer Engineering & Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece, in 1998, 2001 and 2003 respectively. From 2003-2005, he worked as a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Yousef Saad at the Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA. Costas's main focus is in massively parallel systems and their impact in everyday life, science and business. His research agenda spans numerical and combinatorial algorithms, energy-aware and fault tolerant systems/methods and computational science. Dr. Bekas brings more than 10 years of experience in scientific and high performance computing. During the past 2 years he has been very active in the field of energy- aware HPC, proposing and publishing new energy-aware performance metrics and demonstrating their impact in HPC and large scale industrial problems. Dr. Bekas has been a strong advocate of energy-aware HPC, serving at the PC of the Ena-HPC conference series, organising relevant sessions in key conferences (SIAM PP12) and workshops (CECAM, Sept. 2012) and giving plenary talks on the subject (HellaHPC, 2010, PMAA, 2012).
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bek@zurich.ibm.com
Dr. Cristiano Malossi
Background and research/work focus:
Cristiano is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Mathematical and Computational Sciences group from July 2013. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Aerospace Engineering and a M.Sc. degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2004 and 2007, respectively. From November 2007 to December 2008 he has worked as a Fellowship Researcher at the Mathematical Department of the Politecnico di Milano, on a project funded by ENI - the main Italian oil and energy company. On January 2009 Cristiano moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where on September 2012 he got a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, with a thesis focused on the development of algorithms and mathematical methods for the numerical simulation of cardiovascular problems. In the following nine months he continued his research at the EPFL as Postdoctoral Researcher. Thanks to all these experiences Cristiano has got a broad knowledge in several fields including, Numerical Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Scientific Computing, Aircraft Design, Computational Geology, and Cardiovascular Simulations. Presently, Cristiano is working on the calibration of new energy- aware performance metrics for HPC.
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+41 44 724 8616

 

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acm@zurich.ibm.com
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