Marco Aldinucci

Full Professor & Head of the Parallel Computing group at the Computer Science Department of the University of Torino

Director of the HPC Key Technologies and Tools (HPC-KTT) national lab of the Italian National Consortium for Informatics (CINI)

Bio

Marco Aldinucci is a full professor and the head of the Parallel Computing research group at the University of Torino. He has authored over 150 scientific articles (see Google Scholar) and has received several prestigious awards, including the HPC Advisory Council University Award in 2011, the NVidia Research Award in 2013, the IBM Faculty Award in 2015, and the Autodesk Award in 2021.

He served as the Italian delegate on the Governing Board of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking from 2018 to 2021, and he is currently a member of its Research and Innovation Advisory Board (RIAG).

Marco has participated in over 15 EU-funded research projects on parallel, cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC), securing more than €10 million in research funds for the University of Torino. He has co-designed and contributed to several programming frameworks and libraries for parallel computing, such as Fastflow, Streamflow, and CAPIO.

In 2017, Marco led the design of the HPC4AI laboratory, and in 2020, he became the founding director of the CINI HPC Key Technologies and Tools national laboratory, which brings together researchers from 38 Italian universities. This experience was further applied to FutureHPC, the technological spoke of the Italian National Centre on HPC (ICSC), where he initiated the Software & Integration national laboratory in 2023.

Very short bio

Marco Aldinucci is a full professor and head of the Parallel Computing research group at the University of Turin. He has authored over 180 scientific articles and received several prestigious awards, including the HPC Advisory Council University and IBM Faculty awards. Marco has been involved in over 15 EU-funded research projects, securing over €10 million for the university. He has co-designed several open-source programming frameworks like Fastflow and Streamflow. Additionally, he founded the HPC4AI laboratory and the CINI HPC Key Technologies and Tools national laboratory, as well as initiated the Software & Integration national laboratory at the Italian National Centre on HPC.

Research Interests

  • Languages and run-time systems for parallel computing. Parallel programming models or multicomputer, multicores and accelerators
  • Tools and system software for HPC: Workflows for hybrid HPC-cloud, high-performance storage
  • Cloud Engineering, virtualization, containerization (OpenStack, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Distributed computing: distributed and federated deep learning
  • Foundational aspects of parallel processing

Activity

My Little Diary

  • [2023] Iacopo Colonelli’s PhD thesis received the best PhD thesis award from the CINI national lab in Data Science.
  • [2023] Member of the advisory board of the Italian “Observatory on Trends and Applications of Supercomputing.”
  • [2023] The new Software & Integration living lab (I’m leading) of National center in HPC at UNITO is up and running!
  • [2023] Streamflow workflow management system and OpenDeepHealth PaaS have been selected by EU Innovation Radar.
  • [2023] Coordinator of the OpenScience working group at the University of Torino
  • [2022] Member of the ISCRA peer-review evaluation panel at CINECA
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  • [2022] Lectio Magistralis at the finals of the Italian Olympic Games of Computer Science 2022
  • [2022-2024] Research fellow of the Links Foundation
  • [2022] Co-leader of the FutureHPC spoke of the National Center on HPC (ICSC)
  • [2022] Member of the governing board (consulta consortile) of CINECA
  • [2022] Italian member of the Research and Innovation Advisory Board (RIAG) of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking 
  • [2022] Delegate of the University of Turin in ICDI and EOSC 

2016-2021

  • [2021] Founding director of the new HPC Key Technologies and Tools national laboratory of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI).
  • [2021] Delegate of the University of Turin in Gaia-X aisbl
  • [2021] Member of National Habilitation Committee (ASN) for Computer Science (01/B1)
  • [2021] Founding director of the new HPC Key Technologies and Tools national laboratory of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI).
  • [2020-21] Coordinator of the CLAIRE Covid-19 task force on “AI and medical images”.
  • [2019-now] Member of the scientific advisory board of CSI PIedmont as a delegate of the University of Torino.
  • [2019] I am now a full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Torino. The first full professor INF/01 hired at UNITO in the habilitation turn 2016-2018.
  • [2019] Member of the Hyperion Research “HPC Technical Computing Advisory Panel”.
  • [2019] Dissemination Manager of the 14.8M€ DeepHealth project.
  • [2018-21] National delegate (Italy) at the EuroHPC governing board, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
  • [2018-21] Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Industry4.0” master program at the University of Torino.
  • [2018] Member of Steering Committee of Euro-Par conference series
  • [2018-20] I am a representative of the University of Turin in the working group of the city of Turin on “free software and open data”.
  • [2018-21] Coordinator of HPC4AI 4.5M€ project (The Turin’s High-Performance Computing for Artificial Intelligence Centre).
  • [2018-now] Member of the steering committee of the PhD school in Modelling and Data Science
  • [2017-18] Member of the steering committee of the PhD school in Innovation for the Circular Economy
  • [2017-18] Member of the board of advisors of Swiss innovation valley fintech firm
  • [2017] Member of the editorial board of Parallel Computing, Elsevier
  • [2017] Member of the IEEE Special Technical Community on Parallel Model & system Dataflow and Beyond (IEEE-DFSTC).
  • [2017] National habilitation as full professor in Computer Science (01/B1 – Informatica, ASN call Dec. 2016)
  • [2019-24] Member of the scientific advisory board of CSI PIedmont as a delegate of the University of Torino.
  • [2016-20] Vice-President of the Competency Centre on Scientific Computing (C3S) at the University of Torino
  • [2016-20] Director at “Data-Centric” Laboratory of the Innovation Centre of the University of Torino (ICxT)
  • [2016] Part of the GARR task force on cloud and service federation

2011-2106

  • [2015] IBM Faculty Award 2015 (spark optimisation).
  • [2015] Director of the University of Torino research unit in the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI).
  • [2015] Leading the Working Group on “Programming Model for Big Data” of the cHiPSet EU COST Action IC1406.
  • [2014] Ranked 1st out of 481 candidates in the evaluation exercise of lecturers at the University of Torino for the three-year period 2009-2012 (una-tantum price, research and teaching, across 28 departments).
  • [2014] Outstanding leadership award at 16th IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Paris, France, Aug 2014.
  • [2013] Leading University of Torino unit in the EC-P7 STREP project REPARA (2013-2016, 3.6M Euro grant).
  • [2013] NVIdia Academic Research Center Award 2013.
  • [2012] Contact person for University of Torino of the European Network of Excellence HiPEAC: High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (2012-2016).
  • [2011] Leading Compilation and Platform Specific Deployment work package of EC-P7 STREP project Paraphrase (2011-2014, 4.2M Euro grant).
  • [2011] HPC Advisory Council University award 2011. Announced at SuperComputing 2011.
  • [2011] Leading Parallel Programming Models research group at the University of Torino