Massimo Bernaschi

Massimo Bernaschi is with CNR, the National Research Council of Italy as Chief Technology Officer of the Institute for Applied Computing.

He is also an Adjunct Professor of Systems Programming at "Sapienza" University in Rome;

Trainer in Digital Forensics at "Sapienza" and Modena Universities.

Before joining CNR in 1998, Massimo worked ten years at the IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing where he developed the IBM PVMe product and received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards.

His main scientific interests are parallel computing; modelling of complex systems (finance and biology);

systems and network security; high performance computing.

He is the author of about 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.

Massimo Bernaschi started working with CUDA back in 2008.

He developed the first CUDA implementation of the Lattice Boltzmann method for

irregular geometries and has been a pioneer in multi-GPU programming.

In 2011 he received a Honorable Mention in the Gordon Bell Award for MUPHY,

a multi-physics CUDA code for the simulation of bio-fluids that achieves excellent  scalability up to 4000 GPU.

He also developed CUDA codes for spin systems simulations, dictionary and

brute-force attacks to cryptosystems, signal-processing:x and simulation of soft matter.

In 2012 Massimo Bernaschi has been named "Cuda Fellow".