The third edition of the CINI-HPC Summer School will be held from June 16 to 20, 2025 in Naples, Italy.
This year, the event promoted by the HPC Laboratory: Key Technologies and Tools of the National Inter-university Consortium for Informatics (CINI), with the support of the National Research Center in HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing, is organized by Pasqua D’Ambra – Institute for Applications of Calculus “Mauro Picone” (IAC) of the National Research Council (CNR), Marco Lapegna – the University of Naples Federico II and Raffaele Montella – University of Naples “Parthenope”.
The Summer School aims to offer an intensive program that fully covers the hardware and software aspects fundamental to the design and implementation of parallel and distributed computing solutions. Recognized experts from the academic and industrial world will lead the sessions during the five-day school, providing participants with an up-to-date overview of the latest developments and major challenges in high-performance computing.
The event is supported by Italian and international sponsors from the academic and industrial world.
Participants will engage in a comprehensive curriculum that includes theoretical lectures on fundamental and advanced concepts of HPC, hands-on tutorials, and mentoring focusing on four main thematic areas:
Architectures
Programming Models and Tools
Accelerators
Libraries, Applications, and Performance Evaluation
The program is designed for a diverse audience, including Ph.D. students, early-career researchers, professional engineers in the industry, and outstanding undergraduate students. This year’s edition has been a remarkable success, with over 100 participants selected from 173 applicants worldwide.
Venue Details
Main teaching activities, lectures, and IAC-CNR HPC infrastructure visit will take place in three institutional buildings, according to the day:
Villa Doria d’Angri, University of Naples “Parthenope”;
Conference Center, University of Naples “Federico II”;
Research Area NA1, National Research Council of Italy.
Raffaele Montella is an Associate Professor with tenure in Computer Science at the Department of Science and Technologies (DiST), University of Naples “Parthenope'” (UNP), Italy. He got his degree (MSc equivalent) cum laude and an award mention to his study career in (Marine) Environmental Science at the University of Naples “Parthenope” in 1998, defending a thesis about the “Development of a GIS system for marine applications”.
He defended his Ph.D. thesis on “Environmental modeling and Grid Computing techniques” earning a Ph.D. in Marine Science and Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II”.
His main research topics and scientific production are focused on: tools for high-performance computing, cloud computing, and GPUs with applications in the field of computational environmental science (multi-dimensional geo-referenced big data, distributed computing for modeling, and scientific workflows and science gateways) leveraging on his previous (and still ongoing) experiences in embedded, mobile, wearable, pervasive computing, and Internet of Things.
He joined the CI/RDCEP of the University of Chicago as Visiting Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor working on the FACE-IT project.
He leads the High-Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC) Laboratory and the IT infrastructure of the UNP Center for Marine and Atmosphere Monitoring and Modeling (CMMMA).
He technically led the University of Naples “Parthenope” research unit of the European Project “Heterogeneous secure multi-level Remote Acceleration service for low-Power Integrated systems and Devices (RAPID)”. His effort focused on GVirtuS development and integration (General purpose Virtualization Service), enabling CUDA kernel execution on mobile and embedded devices.
He led the locally funded project: “Modeling mytilus farming System with Enhanced web technologies (MytiluSE)” focused on high-performance computing based coupled simulations for mussels’ farms’ food quality prediction and assessment for human gastric disease mitigation.
He leads the locally funded project “MytilAI – Modeling mytilus farming with Artificial Intelligence technologies”, focused on using AI techniques for mussel pollutants contamination predictions.
He leads the research project: “DYNAMO: Distributed leisure Yacht-carried sensor-Network for Atmosphere and Marine data crOwd-sourcing applications”, targeting coastal marine data gathering as crowd-sourcing for environmental protection, development, and management.
He led the UNP unit of the Erasmus+ Project “Framework for Gamified Programming Education (FGPE)” and is leading the UNP unit of the project “FGPE Plus: Learning tools interoperability for gamified programming education” as an ideal extension of FGPE ending in May 2021.
Since 2021 he has been head of the UNP node CINI Lab/Working Group “HPC: Key Technologies and Tools”. Since 2022 he has been the head of the AWS Academy at the University of Naples “Parthenope”.
In February 2023, he gained the Italian National Academic Qualifications as Full Professor in Computer Science (01/B1).
