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I got my graduation in physics on 2010 at Università degli
Studi di Milano, and I'm currently following my master
studying particle physics in the same University. Aside
physics, I have been having a really long term interest in
computer science and specifically in graphic video devices
since first years of high school, self-learning this new way
of programming with a close friend currently student at
Politecnio di Milano, Andrea Bartezzaghi. Together we took
our first experiments in general purpose GPU programming, at
the time only in assembly with Shader Model 1.0. This long
term interest pushed me in the direction of CUDA (in my
bachelor thesis) and parallel programming techniques, that
finally lead to the openlab project I worked on: increasing
performance of the parallel ROOT fit package prototype
(called MLFit) by adding MPI support. The project also
includes tests on different hardware (from a single node to
a small cluster) and a detailed study of a new research chip
from IntelCorporation: Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC).
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