The HPSC SmartLab (acronym of High Performance Scientific Computing Smart Laboratory) is the Applied High-Performance Scientific Computing Research Laboratory of the “Department of Science and Technology” (DiST, http://dist.uniparthenope.it) – University of Napoli “Parthenope” – Italy (established in 2007).
HPSC SmartLab’s mission is twofold:
Developing multidisciplinary computational and mathematical sciences investigations using cutting-edge analytical approaches, numerical methods, scientific computing tools, innovative data analysis algorithms, advanced low-cost high-performance computing platforms; enabling distributed collaborative and virtual environments by developing system software technologies and tools. Main research topics of HPSC SmartLab:
Numerical methods and scientific computing; Mathematical analysis: Parallel Computing on clusters and GPU for scientific applications; Distributed and Grid/Cloud Computing; Advanced Data Analysis; Atmospheric science models; Main scientific fields of interest are:
Applied mathematics, computational mathematics, computer science, atmospheric science, computational biology, and bioinformatics.
Research groups:
AMNCS: Mathematical and Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing Group. Field: Applied and Computational Mathematics Members: Giulio Giunta (PI), Benedetta Pellacci (PI), Mariarosaraia Rizzardi, Anna Lisa Amadori, Ardelio Galletti, Livia Mercellino. Ongoing projects: Methodologies and techniques of mathematical and numerical analysis, as well as scientific computing for elliptic and parabolic PDEs, inverse problems, and large-scale data fitting. Topics: PDE: results about stationary solutions of nonlinear/asymptotically linear systems of Schrodinger equations, and non-symmetric solutions of elliptic problems; Integro-differential equations in population dynamics: analytical studies and numerical methods. Inverse problems: numerical inversion of Laplace Transform for parallel computing systems; Data fitting: large-scale barycentric interpolation, implicit methods for large-scale surface reconstruction with RBF.
GVIRTUS: Middleware for GPU virtualization in the GpGPU setting. Members: Raffaele Montella (PI), Giulio Giunta (PI), Carlo Palmieri. Ongoing projects: Rapid: Heterogeneous Secure Multi-level Remote Acceleration Service for Low-Power Integrated Systems and Devices.
ATMO: Computational models and data analysis tools for air quality modeling and meteorological forecasting. Members: Angelo Riccio (PI), Raffaele Montella (PI), Giulio Giunta, Carlo Palmieri. Ongoing projects: Centro Campano per la Modellistica Marina e Atmosferica, AriaSaNa.
