[Talks@IDSIA] [virtual PIDSIA] CSCS introduction for IDSIA researchers - March 18th at 11:30

*Title: CSCS introduction for IDSIA researchers *Speakers: Mario Valle, Henrique de Almeida Mendonça, Rafael Sarmiento Perez, Guilherme Peretti-Pezzi *Short abstract: The goal of this talk is to briefly introduce the CSCS infrastructure, including the allocation mechanisms and services that could potentially be relevant to researchers from IDSIA. We will also be available for a Q&A session after the presentation. *Short bios: - Mario started more than 30 years ago to work as a computer scientist playing various roles in various fields. Since 2003 is at CSCS working as scientific visualization expert with chemists and crystallographers to move afterwards to a more general data scientist job. Currently he is in charge of the Persistent Identifier service at CSCS. - Henrique has more than 10 years of experience in distributed and high performance systems. He has worked in the industry in projects involving classical and geometric computer vision and deep learning, with extensive experience in C++, CUDA, PyTorch and TensorFlow. He is also quite active in the Kaggle community, as well as other ML competitions. - Rafael is part of the Compute and Data Services Support group of the User Engagement and Support unit at CSCS. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Lyon I in 2015. There, he worked on ab initio calculations and prediction of crystal structures. He then moved to the University of Basel for a postdoctoral fellowship on machine learning applied to the prediction of chemical properties of molecular systems. In 2017 he started his current position at CSCS. - Guilherme is leading the Compute and Data Service Support group at CSCS. He has a PhD degree in Computer Science and 10+ years of experience in the field of HPC. He worked for both academia, by performing research on parallel programming models, and for industry, with the development of numerical software for computational fluid dynamics simulations. *Date: Thursday, March 18th, 2021, at 11:30 *Zoom link: https://supsi.zoom.us/j/92527388637 ID meeting: 925 2738 8637 (no password needed)