COSMIC: middleware for high performance and reliable multiprocessing on Xeon Phi coprocessors

In Proceedings of the 22nd international symposium on High-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 215-226. It is remarkably easy to offload processing to Intel’s newest manycore coprocessor, the Xeon Phi: it supports a popular ISA (x86-based), a popular OS (Linux) and a popular programming model (OpenMP). Easy portability is … Continue reading COSMIC: middleware for high performance and reliable multiprocessing on Xeon Phi coprocessors →

Time flows inexorably

It is one year since my last post. I don't have too much to tell, I wanted just to mark time.

Cigani! Juris! Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Kutz, kutz ehy ja.

I don't use to (re)post random videos, but this time it is for bringing up the new quote on my about box, it is by Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the terrible AK-47 (known also simply as "the kalashnikov") and of other small weapons. "I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could … Continue reading Cigani! Juris! Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Kutz, kutz ehy ja. →

I'm the science (aka my first publication)

In these last days my first paper had been published. The title of the paper is "A GPGPU Transparent Virtualization Component for High Performance Computing Clouds". It's an article about gVirtuS: the implementation, the usage and a comparison with other software that aim to accomplish to do the same job (seriously in the real world … Continue reading I'm the science (aka my first publication) →

PaperUni 0.8: I can’t do this all on my own… I’m not Superman

Editoriale: "Baci Normali" Argomento del mese: "Omofobia, punto!", "Un mondo di omofobia!", "17/05... 20 anni dopo!" Vita da studente: "Officine... fredde", "Diversità sinonimo di crescita", "Cervelli in foga" Innovazione: "A noi gli occhi... please!", "Alla scoperta delle origini dell'universo" Ricerca:"Celle a combustibile: l'energia di domani" Ambientiamoci: "Pi&ugrave... acqua per tutti", "Sapersi adattare" Di tutto un … Continue reading PaperUni 0.8: I can’t do this all on my own… I’m not Superman →

Il ritorno dei Borboni

Published on PaperUni Anno 0, Numero 7 Vorrei non fosse il titolo di un articolo da due centesimi, ma quello in prima pagina di tutti i giornali, italiani, o meglio napoletani e quelli delle decine di ridicoli staterelli capaci solo ad odiarsi e a farsi guerra a vicenda e poi mettersi d'accordo solo quando, per loro incapacità ridotti alla … Continue reading Il ritorno dei Borboni →