CHRISTOPHER HUGGINS TECH EXECUTIVE , DELL TECHNOLOGIES Maurizio Davini
ENERGY MANAGEMENT of requests we get for our HPC resources .” Just as the applications for HPC , and the types of workloads that are required to run those applications are always changing , so too is the infrastructure that is used to support it . “ HPC requests are always changing , so we need to design a new kind of infrastructure . AI workloads and genomic analysis are , for example , completely different from CFD . We have to be flexible ,” Davini adds .
From quantum chemistry to nanophysics and genome sequencing , researchers at the
“ The ability to pay-per-use for HPC resources in the cloud makes its strategic advantages affordable for almost any organisation ”
CHRISTOPHER HUGGINS TECH EXECUTIVE , DELL TECHNOLOGIES Maurizio Davini
TITLE : CTO EDUCATION SYSTEM : UNIVERSITY OF PISA
Maurizio Davini has worked at the
University of Pisa for almost 23 years . He took over as the university ’ s IT Manager back in 1998 - before IT department heads were graced with illustrious titles like Chief Technology Officer .
He has spent the past three years overseeing a radical digital transformation and data centre consolidation initiative at the university , fundamentally redesigning the IT infrastructure across the University of Pisa ’ s campus .
Davini also served as a technical consultant for the Ferrari racing team between 2002 and 2010 . datacentremagazine . com 121