About us
The HiCrest research group combines expertise in parallel algorithms and high performance computing with reliable computing systems by combining an hardware-software co-design approach. The synergy between our researchers, coming from multidisciplinary fields, is the key in the quest for producing the most performant, efficient, and reliable algorithms. Our research is focused on High Performance Computing and Safety-Critical applications, ranging from self-driving cars to space exploration and scientific computing. Our interest ranges from traditional CMOS systems to more advanced and cutting-edge technologies, including Quantum Computing, Neuromorphic devices, and Processing In Memory.
From a software perspective, our team members research on various topics, ranging from programming models for emerging computer system architectures to scalable and efficient algorithms and data structures, with an emphasis on irregular applications such as sparse algebra and graph analytics.
The group, whilst being very active and successful in various research communities, maintains a deep interest in experimental evaluations in the industrial field, with a strong focus on impact and technology transfer.
Departments
Given the interdisciplinary nature of its research field, the HiCrest group is supported both by the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Industrial Enginnering at the University of Trento, Italy.
News
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Special Session on Quantum Reliability at ETS25
Prof. Paolo Rech organized a Special Session at IEEE ETS – European Test Symposium about quantum computing technology and reliability. The test community is ready to contribute to quantum computing by exploiting the Good to defeat the Bad and the Ugly! Overall, the special session has been a huge success, with wide interest from all…
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Prof. Rech received the Italy-Canada Innovation Award
Prof. Paolo Rech has been awarded with the Italy-Canada innovation award by the from the Ambassador of Canada in Rome! In the Professor’s words: “It has been a pleasure to discuss strategic research politics and opportunities on AI and Quantum technologies during lunch.” The award was the perfect opportunity to strengthen the collaboration with Canadian…
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Best Student Paper Award at SC24
We are proud to announce that Marzio Vallero and Gioele Casagranda, under the supervision of Prof. Vella and Prof. Rech, have received the Best Student Paper award at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held in Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Paper presentation at RADECS 2024
Bruno Loureiro Coelho has just presented his work on the reliability of hardware accelerators for Large Machine Learning Models at RADECS 2025, delivering a thrilling presentation! Thanks to all the co-authors from Inria, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source for the collaboration and thanks to FondazioneVRT,…
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Summer School in High-Performance Computing 2024
The Second CINI Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica Summer School in High-Performance Computing will take place at Università di Trento, Italy, in the heart of the Alps from the 17-21 of June 2024 The school is supported by ICSC – Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in HPC, Big Data e Quantum Computing Indam and E4 Computer…
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HiCrest XMas Dinner 2023!
New members of the HiCrest group, older members and guests alike shared an informal dinner together to recall that doing research is also about having fun.Looking forward to have more and more people as the years go by!