National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - http://www.infn.it
INFN is the Italian National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics. Founded in 1952, INFN is a governmental research organization, which promotes, co-ordinates and funds nuclear, particle and high-energy physics research. INFN staff research personnel amounts to about 2000 employees with an equivalent number of associates from University and other Scientific National Institutes.
Research activity at the INFN is carried out at: 20 Divisions (Sezioni) each located at a university physics department, 4 National Laboratories and a National Centre. The Divisions thus provide a direct connection between the Institute and the academic world. The four Laboratories -in Catania, Frascati, Legnaro, and at Gran Sasso- are home to major facilities which are available to the national and international scientific community, the National Centre CNAF in Bologna is devoted to ICT services and technologies and hosts the Italian Tier1 of LHC. INFN has a long tradition of dissemination and training, dedicated both to the scientific community and to the general public.
INFN runs a country-wide grid infrastructure for e-science and, since the year 2000, takes part as a stakeholder in many European Grid Projects such as DataGrid, DataTag, Coregrid, GridCC, EGEE, EELA, EUAsiaGrid, EUChinaGRID, GISELA. It is currently the coordinator of CHAIN, EUMEDGRID-Support, and EU-IndiaGrid2. In the context of several EC projects, INFN developed the GILDA virtual laboratory for grid dissemination and knowledge dissemination activities.
Key Persons
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Federico Ruggieri | E-mail: Federico(dot)Ruggieri(at)roma3(dot)infn(dot)it |
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Prof. Federico Ruggieri is a senior physicist and Director of Research at INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics). He spent most of his professional life working on On-Line and Off-line Computing Systems for High Energy Physics experiments at CERN and at Frascati, INFN National Laboratory. He promoted the first GRID project approved and funded by the European Commission: EU-DataGRID and started the Tier1 of INFN-CNAF in Bologna where he was the Director from 1998 to 2004. Since 1980 he played an important role in the development of the Communication Networks for Research and Education in Italy and GARR the Italian National Research and Academic Network. From 2006 onward he led projects co-funded by the European Commission’s VI Framework Program EUChinaGRID and EUMEDGRID and he is presently the coordinator of EUMEDGRID-Support and CHAIN projects in the VII FP. He is also professor of Data Acquisition and Control of Experiments in the Department of Physics of the University of Roma TRE. Federico Ruggieri has a list of more than 340 articles and publications in the domains of Physics, Data Acquisition, Grids and ICT. |
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Roberto Barbera | E-mail: roberto(dot)barbera(at)ct(dot)infn(dot)it, roberto(dot)barbera(at)ct(dot)infn(dot)it |
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Prof. Roberto Barbera was born in Catania (Italy) in October 1963. He graduated in Physics "cum laude" at the University of Catania in 1986 and since 1990 he holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the same University. Since 2005 he is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Catania University. Since his graduation his main research activity has been done in the domains of Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics. He has been involved in many experiments in France, Russia, United States and Sweden to study nuclear matter properties in heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies. He is author of several book chapters, more than 170 scientific papers published on international journals, and more than 400 proceedings of international conferences. He is editor of the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies and referee of Journal of Grid Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, and BMC Medical Informatics. Since 1997 he has been involved in CERN experiments and he is currently one of the members of the ALICE Experiment at LHC. Within ALICE, he has been the coordinator of the Off-line software of the Inner Tracking System detector and member of the Off-line Board. Since late 1999 he is interested in Grid Computing. He is member of the Executive Board of the Italian INFN Grid Project , of the Executive Committee of the Italian Grid Infrastructure (the Italian National Grid Initiative) and of the Scientific & Technical Committee of GARR (the Italian National Research and Education Network). Between 2005 and 2009 he has been the Director of two large Grid Projects (TriGrid VL and PI2S2 ) funded by the Sicilian Regional Government and by the Ministry of University and Research, respectively. At European level, he has been involved with managerial duties in many EU funded projects and he is currently the Coordinator of the EPIKH Marie Curie Action. In 2004, he created the international GILDA Grid infrastructure for training and dissemination that he coordinates since the beginning. He is currently involved in the design and implementation of Science Gateways for various Virtual Research Communities. |
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Antonio Budano |
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Antonio Budano took a degree in Physics at the Roma Tre University in 2003. From April 2004 to June 2005 he was fellow at CASPUR (Consorzio interuniversitario per le Applicazioni di Supercalcolo Per Università e Ricerca) where he developed an Open Source software for statistical analysis, written in Java language, in collaboration with UNESCO and ECI (Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería). From July 2005 to December 2005 he collaborated with Physics Department of University “Roma Tre” where he took part into the building of the Data Acquisition System (DAQ) for the Argo-YBJ experiment and developed an application named “Argo Run Control” for DAQ management. Since 2006 he’s involved in GRID activities participating to the EU co-funded international projects EUChinaGRID and EUMedGRID. During this period he has also participated as tutor to several training activities (School for porting application and Tutorials). Since 2008 he’s the Grid Site Administrator for the INFN-ROMA3 site and from 2010 he works for the EUMedGRID-Support project with the responsibility of the INFN-ROMA3 site and is involved in the application porting using parallel architectures as MPI and GPU. |
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Federico Bitelli | E-mail: bitelli(at)fis(dot)uniroma3(dot)it |
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Born: Rome Italy — 19 July 1969 Office: Physics Department "E. Amaldi", Università Roma Tre via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma Tel +390657337266
Involved as tutor/speaker in the following Grid Schools and Tutorials organised by EU co-funded projects:
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