The HiCREST Laboratory is proud to announce that our researcher Kaijie Fan has been awarded the Best Poster Award at the “AI, HPC & QUANTUM – Facing the Technological Challenge. Today” conference, hosted by E4 Computer Engineering.
The award recognizes the outstanding quality and scientific impact of the research presented in her poster:
“Energy and Performance Cost Characterization of GPU-centric Communication Libraries”
As High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI workloads increasingly rely on massive GPU clusters, understanding the energy footprint alongside network performance becomes paramount. The study provides a comprehensive characterization of GPU-centric communication libraries, offering crucial insights into balancing performance optimization with energy cost efficiency.
This success highlights the strength of international and inter-institutional collaboration. The work was co-authored by a multi-institutional team of researchers:
- Kaijie Fan, Jacopo Raffi, and Flavio Vella (HiCREST Laboratory, University of Trento)
- Lorenzo Carpentieri and Biagio Cosenza (University of Salerno)
- Tiziano De Matteis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- JaeHyuk Kwack (Argonne National Laboratory)
We extend our congratulations to Kaijie and the entire research team for this well-deserved recognition, and we thank E4 Computer Engineering for fostering research and innovation across AI, HPC, and Quantum technologies.


