Current Position

Research Scientist in the High Performance Computing Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  (http://www.pnl.gov/oreste.villa), Richland, WA (USA).

Research Interests

High performance computing with accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs)
Programming and execution models for parallel computers
Design, simulation, prototyping of computer architectures and micro-architectures

Short Bio

Dr. Oreste Villa is a research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with a research focus on computer architectures and simulation, accelerators for scientific computing and irregular applications. He joined PNNL in May 2008 after receiving his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His dissertation title is "Designing and Programming Advanced Multicore Architectures".

During his Ph.D. program he has been intern student at PNNL, conducting research in programming techniques and algorithms for advanced multicore architectures, focusing his studies on the IBM Cell/B.E. processor developing high-performance graph exploration and pattern matching algorithms. He also focused his research on cluster fault tolerance and virtualization techniques for HPC.

Dr. Villa received a M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering in 2003 from the University of Cagliari (Italy) and an M.E. degree on Embedded Systems Design from the University of Lugano (Switzerland) in 2004. His Master Degree thesis, developed in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and STMicroelectronics, focused on cycle-accurate multicore simulation frameworks.

Publications

http://scholar.google.com/OresteVilla