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.

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Industrial Engineering


News

  • 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…

  • 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!

  • HiCrest won the Best Paper Award by the IEEE Computer Society!

    The paper “Soft Error Effects on Arm Microprocessors: Early Estimations versus Chip Measurements” is the Best Paper of IEEE Transactions on Computers! An outstanding work from our research group. In the paper, resulting from a collaboration between the University of Trento in Italy, UFRGS in Brazil, and the University of Athens in Greece, we have…

  • Quantum Error Correction and Mitigation Workshop

    We are glad to inform you that Prof. Paolo Rech will hold a talk on the 18th of October 2023, at the Quantum Error Correction and Mitigation workshop, on the topic of Superconducting Quantum Device Reliability. The workshop, organised by the Department of Physics of the University of Trento and the Bruno Kessler Foundation, will…

  • 2023 Flame AI Challenge

    Last September, HIcrest group’s member and Ph.D. student Anas Jnini participated in the 2023 Flame AI Challenge on Kaggle and achieved the second place among 39 partecipants from all over the world.This is a very significant achievement, confirming the knowledge and passion that Anas is continuously putting forward in his doctoral degree path. The task…

  • Slides for the lecture at NSREC 2023

    Paolo Rech will discuss the reliability of Machine Learning systems at the NSREC 2023 short course entitled “Experimental Evaluation of Artificial Neural Networks Reliability: from GPUs to low-power accelerators”. In this course, Prof. Paolo Rech will review fundamental concepts of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, and parallel computing devices. Then, the course will detail the experimental setup…