About Me
Piero Vicini joined the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare as research associate in 1993. Currently he is senior research associate. From 1993‐1998 he was one of the principal investigators of INFN APE Group, the supercomputing initiative of INFN, responsible for HW development, VLSI design and production of the APE Supercomputer and, from 2005, he is spokesman and coordinator of the research group.
He has been the Italian member of the European High Performance Task Force Committee, member of INFN Technological and Inter‐Disciplinary research committee, member of the INFN Scientific Computing Coordination Committee and more recently member of the EuroHPC Working group on User requirements. Since 2006 he coordinates the INFN participation to several EU-funded projects in the High Performance Computing research area, in particular: the FP6 project "SHAPES", the FP7 project "EURETILE" (2010-2014), H2020 project "ExaNeSt" (2015-2019) and "EuroExa" (2017-ongoing).
Current research interests and activities are in the development of massively parallel processing systems optimized for scientific numerical simulation and, in particular, floating point processor architectures, dedicated network architecture on FPGA, computational accelerators and high performance system integration.
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