Sanzio Bassini
Director of Supercomputing and Innovation - CINECA
In 1981 he has been responsible of the scientific computing systems installed at CINECA, and in 1984 joint the Italian Supercomputer Project that introduced the first supercomputer of this class in Italy. In 1986 he has been convener of the Operating System Committee of the Cray User Group independent conference. In 1989 has been responsible of the project to migrate the Consortium production environment towards UNIX. In 1992, he has been appointed Team Leader of the CINECA Supercomputing Group. From 1992 to 1996 he has been member of the EC High Performance Computing & Networking EC committee. In 1996, he has been appointed CINECA High Performance System Division Manager. From 2006 to 2010 he was CINECA Director of the System and Technology Department for the Development and Management of CINECA Information System. From 2010, upfront the delegation from Italian Ministry of Education University and Research to CINECA to represent Italy within the PRACE Legal Association for the implementation of the European Supercomputing Research Infrastructure, he is been appointed CINECA Director of the Supercomputing Application & Innovation Department for the development of technical and scientific computing service, innovation and technology transfer activities.
In his position of Technical Director since 2006 he is a member of the CINECA Consortium Technical Committee. In his career he has been project leader of many European projects funded by the DG INFSO (now Connect) and by the DG Research and participated to many infrastructure projects in the area of information technology, networking and supercomputing. In June 2014 was elected PRACE Council Chairman.