Rome APE group publications

Papers on Journals or Conference Proceedings

2017

• Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP2016)
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, S. Di Lorenzo, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, M. Martinelli, I. Neri, P.S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, R. Piandani, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, P. Valente, P. Vicini, "Development of Network Interface Cards for TRIDAQ systems with the NaNet framework", 2017 JINST 12 C03037, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/03/C03037

• VCI 2016 - The 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, S. Chiozzi, A. Cotta Ramusino, S. Di Lorenzo, R. Fantechi, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, M. Martinelli, I. Neri, P.S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, R. Piandani, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, P. Vicini, "Graphical processors for HEP trigger systems", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 845, 11 February 2017, Pages 612-615, ISSN 0168-9002, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.043.

• International Conference on Kaon Physics 2016
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, S. Chiozzi, P. Cretaro, S. Di Lorenzo, R. Fantechi, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, M. Martinelli, I. Neri, P. S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, R. Piandani, M. Piccini, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, P. Vicini, "GPU real-time processing in NA62 trigger system", 2017 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 800 012046, https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/800/1/012046

• 14th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD16)
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, S. Chiozzi, P. Cretaro, A. Cotta Ramusino, S. Di Lorenzo, R. Fantechi, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, A. Gianoli, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, M. Martinelli, I. Neria, P.S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, R. Piandani, M. Piccini, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, P. Vicini, "GPU-based low-level trigger system for the standalone reconstruction of the ring-shaped hit patterns in the RICH Cherenkov detector of NA62 experiment", 2017 JINST 12 C03005, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/03/C03005

2016

• Journal of Systems Architecture
  • P. S. Paolucci, A. Biagioni, L. G. Murillo, F. Rousseau, L. Schor, L. Tosoratto, I. Bacivarov, R. L. Buecs, C. Deschamps, A. El-Antably, R. Ammendola, N. Fournel, O. Frezza, R. Leupers, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, M. Martinelli, E. Pastorelli, D. Rai, D. Rossetti, Francesco Simula, L. Thiele, Piero Vicini, J. H. Weinstock, "Dynamic many-process applications on many-tile embedded systems and HPC clusters: The EURETILE programming environment and execution platforms", Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 69, September 2016, Pages 29-53, ISSN 1383-7621, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2015.11.008.

• DSD 2016 - Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design
  • M. Katevenis, N. Chrysos, M. Marazakis, I. Mavroidis, F. Chaix, N. Kallimanis, J. Navaridas, J. Goodacre, P. Vicini, A. Biagioni, P. S. Paolucci, A. Lonardo, E. Pastorelli, F. Lo Cicero, R. Ammendola, P. Hopton, P. Coates, G. Taffoni, S. Cozzini, M. Kersten, Y. Zhang, J. Sahuquillo, S. Lechago, C. Pinto, B. Lietzow, D. Everett, G. Perna, "The ExaNeSt Project: Interconnects, Storage, and Packaging for Exascale Systems", 2016 Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), Limassol, 2016, pp. 60-67. doi: 10.1109/DSD.2016.106

• Connecting the Dots 2016
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, S. Chiozzi, A. Cotta Ramusino, P. Cretaro, S. Di Lorenzo, R. Fantechi, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, M. Martinelli, I. Neri, P. S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, R. Piandani, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, P. Vicini, "Graphics Processors in HEP Low-Level Trigger Systems", EPJ Web Conf. 127 00011 (2016) DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201612700011

• TWEPP 2015 - Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, A. Lonardo, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, M. Martinelli, I. Neri, P. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, L. Tosoratto, and P. Vicini,"NaNet-10: a 10GbE Network Interface Card for the GPU-based low-level Trigger of the NA62 RICH Detector", Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 11, no. 03, p. C03030, 2016, doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/C03030 [[1]]

• VLVnT 2015 - Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni , O. Frezza, F. Lo Cicero, M. Martinelli, P.S. Paolucci, L. Pontisso, F. Simula, P. Vicini, F. Ameli, C.A. Nicolau, E. Pastorelli, F. Simeone, L. Tosoratto, and A. Lonardo "NaNet3: The on-shore readout and slow-control board for the KM3NeT-Italia underwater neutrino telescope", EPJ Web of Conferences, vol. 116, p. 05008, 2016, doi:10.1051/epjconf/201611605008 [[2]]

• 13th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors (24-30 May 2015)
  • R. Ammendola, M. Bauce, A. Biagioni, S. Chiozzi, A. Cotta Ramusino, R. Fantechi, M. Fiorini, S. Giagu, A. Gianoli, G. Lamanna, A. Lonardo, A. Messina, I. Neri, P.S. Paolucci, R. Piandani, L. Pontisso, M. Rescigno, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, P. Vicini, "Graphics Processing Units for HEP trigger systems", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 824, 11 July 2016, Pages 307-310, ISSN 0168-9002, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.11.106.

• Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2015 IEEE
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, S. Chiozzi, A. Cotta Ramusino, R. Fantechi, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, A. Gianoli, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, M. Martinelli, I. Neri, P. S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, R. Piandani, M. Piccini, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, C. Santoni, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, L. Tosoratto and P. Vicini, "GPU-based Low-Level Trigger System for Real-Time Cherenkov Ring Fitting", 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), San Diego, CA, 2015, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581774

2015

• JSA
  • Pier Stanislao Paolucci and Andrea Biagioni and Luis Gabriel Murillo and Frédéric Rousseau and Lars Schor and Laura Tosoratto and Iuliana Bacivarov and Robert L. Buecs and Clément Deschamps and Ashraf El-Antably and Roberto Ammendola and Nicolas Fournel and Ottorino Frezza and Rainer Leupers and Francesca Lo Cicero and Alessandro Lonardo and Michele Martinelli and Elena Pastorelli and Devendra Rai and Davide Rossetti and Francesco Simula and Lothar Thiele and Piero Vicini and Jan H. Weinstock, "Dynamic many-process applications on many-tile embedded systems and HPC clusters: The EURETILE programming environment and execution platforms.", Journal of Systems Architecture, issn: 1383-7621, doi: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2015.11.008 [[3]]

• CHEP
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, F. Lo Cicero, A Lonardo, M. Martinelli, P. S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto and P. Vicini, "Hardware and Software Design of FPGA-based PCIe Gen3 interface for APEnet+ network interconnect system.", J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. (JPCS), Volume 664, 2015, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/664/00/001001 [[4]]
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Gianluca Lamanna, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Michele Martinelli, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Elena Pastorelli, Luca Pontisso, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Marco Sozzi, Laura Tosoratto and Piero Vicini, "A multi-port 10GbE PCIe NIC featuring UDP offload and GPUDirect capabilities.", J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. (JPCS), Volume 664, 2015, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/664/9/092002 [[5]]

• TWEPP
  • A. Lonardo, F. Ameli, R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, A. Cotta Ramusino, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, M. Martinelli, I. Neri, P.S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, F. Simeone, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, L. Tosoratto and P. Vicini, "NaNet: a configurable NIC bridging the gap between HPC and real-time HEP GPU computing", 2015, JINST - Journal of Instrumentation, Proceedings of Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP) 2014, 10 C04011, IOP Publishing, doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/04/C04011 [[6]]
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, A. Lonardo, F. Lo Cicero, M. Martinelli, P.S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto and P. Vicini, "Architectural improvements and technological enhancements for the APEnet+ interconnect system", 2015, JINST - Journal of Instrumentation, Proceedings of Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP) 2014,10 C02005, IOP Publishing, doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/02/C02005 [[7]]

• Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Werner Geurts, Gert Goossens, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini, "ASIP acceleration for virtual-to-physical address translation on RDMA-enabled FPGA-based network interfaces", Available online 12 January 2015, ISSN 0167-739X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2014.12.012.[[8]]
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini, "A hierarchical watchdog mechanism for systemic fault awareness on distributed systems", Future Generation Computer Systems, Available online 5 January 2015, ISSN 0167-739X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2014.12.015. [[9]]

2014

• TWEPP
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, G. Lamanna, A. Lonardo, F. Lo Cicero, P. S. Paolucci, F. Pantaleo, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, L. Tosoratto, P.Vicini “NaNet: a flexible and configurable low-latency NIC for real-time trigger systems based on GPUs“, in JINST, Journal of Instrumentation, Proceedings of Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP) 2013, IOP Publishing, 2014 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/02/C02023 [[10]]

• CHEP
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Riccardo Fantechi, Ottorino Frezza, Gianluca Lamanna, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Felice Pantaleo, Roberto Piandani, Luca Pontisso, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Marco Sozzi, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini, "NaNet: a low-latency NIC enabling GPU-based, real-time low level trigger systems", 2014, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 012018 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/1/012018 [[11]]
  • G Lamanna, R Ammendola, M Bauce, A Biagioni, R Fantechi, M Fiorini, S Giagu, E Graverini, A Lonardo, A Messina, F Pantaleo, PS Paolucci, R Piandani, M Rescigno, F Simula, M Sozzi, P Vicini, "GPUs for real-time processing in HEP trigger systems", 2014 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 012017 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/1/012017 [[12]]
  • Silvia Amerio, D Bastieri, M Corvo, A Gianelle, W Ketchum, T Liu, Alessandro Lonardo, D Lucchesi, S Poprocki, R Rivera, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini, P Wittich, "Many-core applications to online track reconstruction in HEP experiments", 2014 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 012002 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/1/012002 [[13]]

• ACAT
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, P. S. Paolucci, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto and P. Vicini, “Analysis of performance improvements for host and GPU interface of the APENet+ 3D Torus network“, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Workshop on Advanced Computing & Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT) 2013, 2014 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 523 012013 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/523/1/012013
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, L. Deri, M. Fiorini, O. Frezza, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, A. Messina, M. Sozzi, F. Pantaleo, P.S. Paolucci, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto and P. Vicini, “GPU for Real Time processing in HEP trigger systems“, Journal of Physics, Conference Series, Workshop on Advanced Computing & Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT) 2013, 2014 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 523 012007 doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/523/1/012007

• TIPP - Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics
  • Stefano Chiozzi, Angelo Cotta Ramusino, Massimiliano Fiorini, Alberto Gianoli, Ilaria Neri, Riccardo Fantechi, Gianluca Lamanna, Roberto Piandani, Marco Sozzi, Matteo Bauce, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Alessandro Lonardo, Andrea Messina, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Francesco Simula, Piero Vicini, Roberto Ammendola, Mauro Piccini, Cristiano Santoni, "GPUs for Online Processing in Low-Level Trigger Systems", PoS(TIPP2014)208, Proceedings of Science (TIPP) Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 2014, 2-6 June, 2014 Amsterdam, the Netherlands [[14]]

• SRDS
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini, "LO-FA-MO: Fault Detection and Systemic Awareness for the QUonG Computing System", SRDS, 2014, 2014 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2014 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2014, pp. 265-270, doi:10.1109/SRDS.2014.33 [[15]]

• ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
  • Christoph Schumacher, Jan Henrik Weinstock, Rainer Leupers, Gerd Ascheid, Laura Tosoratto, Alessandro Lonardo, Dietmar Petras, and Andreas Hoffmann, "legaSCi: Legacy SystemC Model Integration into Parallel Simulators".2014. c13, 5s, Article 165 (December 2014), 24 pages. DOI=10.1145/2678018 [[16]]

2013

• IPDPS
  • R. Ammendola, M. Bernaschi, A. Biagioni, M. Bisson, M. Fatica, O. Frezza, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, E. Mastrostefano, P. S. Paolucci, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto, and P. Vicini, “GPU Techniques Applied to a Cluster Interconnect,” in Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops PhD Forum (IPDPSW), 2013 IEEE 27th International, pp. 806–815, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.128 [[17]]
• TWEPP
  • R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, A. Lonardo, F. Lo Cicero, P.S. Paolucci, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto and P. Vicini, “APEnet+ 34 Gbps data transmission system and custom transmission logic,” in JINST, Journal of Instrumentation, Proceedings of Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP) 2013, IOP Publishing, 2013 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/8/12/C12022. [[18]]
• FPT
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini, “Virtual-to-Physical Address Translation for an FPGA-based Interconnect with Host and GPU Remote DMA Capabilities.,” in Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), 2013 International Conference on, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/FPT.2013.6718331. [[19]]
• CHEP
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Alessandro Lonardo, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini, “Architectural improvements and 28 nm FPGA implementation of the APEnet+ 3D Torus network for hybrid HPC systems“, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2013, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/5/052002 arXiv:1311.1741.
• CHEP
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Riccardo Fantechi, Ottorino Frezza, Gianluca Lamanna, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Felice Pantaleo, Roberto Piandani, Luca Pontisso, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Marco Sozzi, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini “NaNet: a low-latency NIC enabling GPU-based, real-time low level trigger systems“ , Journal of Physics: Conference Series, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2013, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/1/012018 arXiv:1311.1010
• CHEP
  • G Lamanna, R Ammendola, M Bauce, A Biagioni, R Fantechi, M Fiorini, S Giagu, E Graverini, G Lamanna, A Lonardo, A Messina, F Pantaleo, P S Paolucci, R Piandani, M Rescigno, F Simula, M Sozzi, and P Vicini “GPUs for real-time processing in HEP trigger systems“, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2013, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/1/012017
• CHEP
  • S Amerio, D Bastieri, M Corvo, A Gianelle, W Ketchum, T Liu, A Lonardo, D Lucchesi, S Poprocki, R Rivera, L Tosoratto, P Vicini and P Wittich "Many-core applications to online track reconstruction in HEP experiments", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2013, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/1/012002
• EPS/HEP
  • M.Bauce, A.Biagioni, R.Fantechi, M.Fiorini, S.Giagu, E.Graverini, G.Lamanna , A.Lonardo, A. Messina, F.Pantaleo, R.Piandani , M.Rescigno, F.Simula, M.Sozzi and P.Vicini, “GPU for Real Time processing in HEP trigger systems“, Proceedings of Science, European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) 2013, PoS EPS-HEP2013 (2013) 503.
• NSS/MIC
  • R. Ammendola, M. Bauce, A. Biagioni, R. Fantechi, M. Fiorini, S. Giagu, E. Graverini, G. Lamanna, A. Lonardo, A. Messina, F. Pantaleo, R. Piandani, M. Rescigno, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, P. Vicini “ The GAP Project - GPU for Realtime Applications in High Energy Physics and Medical Imaging“, IEEE Xplore, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference workshop (NSS/MIC) 2013, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829757.
• NSS/MIC
  • Gianelle, A., Amerio, S. ; Bastieri, D. ; Corvo, M. ; Ketchum, W. ; Liu, T. ; Lonardo, A. ; Lucchesi, D. ; Poprocki, S. ; Rivera, R. ; Tosoratto, L. ; Vicini, P. ; Wittich, P., "Applications of many-core technologies to on-line event reconstruction in High Energy Physics experiments", Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829552.
• ReConfig
  • Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto and Piero Vicini, “Design and implementation of a modular, low latency, fault-aware, FPGA-based Network Interface" IEEE Xplore, track on International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig) 2013, doi:10.1109/ReConFig.2013.6732275.

2012

• Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini. APEnet+: a 3-D Torus network optimized for GPU-based HPC Systems. New York, NY. Proceedings on 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 396 042059 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/396/4/042059 [[20]]. (CHEP 2012).
• R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, A. Lonardo, F. Lo Cicero, P. S. Paolucci, D. Rossetti, A. Salamon, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto, P. Vicini. A 34 Gbps Data Transmission System with FPGAs Embedded Transceivers and QSFP plus Modules. 2012 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM AND MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE RECORD (NSS/MIC). Book Series: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. Pages: 872-876. Published: 2012.
• S. Amerio, R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, D. Bastieri, D. Benjamin, O. Frezza, S. Gelain, W. Ketchum, Y. K. Kim, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, T. Liu, D. Lucchesi, P. S. Paolucci, S. Poprocki, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto, G. Urso, P. Vicini, and P. Wittich. Applications of GPUs to online track reconstruction in HEP experiments. - NSS-MIC 2012 Proceedings doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551422
• R Ammendola, A Biagioni, O Frezza, F Lo Cicero, A Lonardo, PS Paolucci, D Rossetti, F Simula, L Tosoratto, P Vicini - APEnet+: a 3D Torus network optimized for GPU-based HPC Systems - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - 396 042059 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/396/4/042059 http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/396/4/042059
• M Bernaschi, M Bisson, D Rossetti - Benchmarking of communication techniques for GPUs, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2012/9 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743731512002213.

2011

• Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini, QUonG: A GPU-based HPC System Dedicated to LQCD Computing, Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, Symposium on, pp. 113-122, 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, 2011, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SAAHPC.2011.15
• Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti,Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto and Piero Vicini. APEnet+ project status. - Proceedings of XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2011). July 10-16, 2011. Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, CA http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/139/045/Lattice%202011_045.pdf

2010

• Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Paolucci, Roberto Petronzio, Davide Rossetti, Andrea Salamon, Gaetano Salina, Francesco Simula, Nazario Tantalo, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini APEnet+: a 3D toroidal network enabling Petaflops scale Lattice QCD simulations on commodity clusters, proceedings of The XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory PoS(Lattice 2010)022 and arXiv:1012.0253v1
• R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, P.S. Paolucci, D. Rossetti, A. Salamon, G. Salina, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto, P. Vicini - apeNET+: High Bandwidth 3D Torus Direct Network for PetaFLOPS Scale Commodity Clusters, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), October 2010, Taipei, Taiwan. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3796)
• R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, P.S. Paolucci, D. Rossetti, A. Salamon, G. Salina, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto, P. Vicini - Mastering multi-GPU computing on a torus network - GPU Technology Conference 2010 (GTC) - poster
• R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, G. Chiodi, O. Frezza, A.Lonardo, F. Lo Cicero, R. Lunadei, D. Rossetti, A. Salamon, G. Salina, F. Simula, L. Tosoratto, P. Vicini - High speed data transfer with FPGAs and QSFP+ modules - Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Aachen, Germany / September 20-24, 2010 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-0221/5/12/C12019) and (http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0128)

• R. Ammendola et al., High speed data transfer with FPGAs and QSFP+ modules,Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC) 2010 IEEE, Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): 1323 1325, November 2010, Knoxville, Tennesse. DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873983

Talks and other publications

• Elena Pastorelli, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Michele Martinelli, Francesco Simula, Piero Vicini "Impact of exponential long range and Gaussian short range lateral connectivity on the distributed simulation of neural networks including up to 30 billion synapses." arXiv:1512.05264
• Elena Pastorelli, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Michele Martinelli, Francesco Simula, Piero Vicini "Scaling to 1024 software processes and hardware cores of the distributed simulation of a spiking neural network including up to 20G synapses." arXiv:1511.09325
• Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Michele Martinelli, Elena Pastorelli, Francesco Simula, Piero Vicini "Power, Energy and Speed of Embedded and Server Multi-Cores applied to Distributed Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks: ARM in NVIDIA Tegra vs Intel Xeon quad-cores." arXiv:1505.03015
• A. Lonardo, R. Ammendola, A. Biagioni, O. Frezza, G. Lamanna, F. Lo Cicero, M. Martinelli, P. S. Paolucci, E. Pastorelli, L. Pontisso, D. Rossetti, F. Simula, M. Sozzi, L. Tosoratto, P. Vicini "NaNet: Design of FPGA-Based Network Interface Cards for Real-Time Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems in HEP Experiments." (NSS/MIC 2015) Poster available here
• Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Elena Pastorelli, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto and Piero Vicini, Distributed simulation of polychronous and plastic spiking neural networks: strong and weak scaling of a representative mini-application benchmark executed on a small-scale commodity cluster arXiv:1310.8478
• Alessandro Lonardo, NaNet: a low-latency NIC enabling GPU-based, real-time low level trigger systems - Talk at Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2013) in Amsterdam, 15 October 2013. PDF available here.
• Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto and Piero Vicini, ’Mutual Watch-dog Networking’: Distributed Awareness of Faults and Critical Events in Petascale/Exascale systems, arXiv:1307.0433, July 2013.
• Andrea Biagioni, The EURETILE hardware experimental platform - Talk at Computing Architectures Software tools and nano-Technologies. For Numerical Embedded and Scalable Systems (CASTNESS 2013) [21]
• Laura Tosoratto, Fault and Critical Event Awareness: a no-single-point-of-failure approach for distributed systems - Talk at Computing Architectures Software tools and nano-Technologies. For Numerical Embedded and Scalable Systems (CASTNESS 2013) [22]
• Davide Rossetti, GPU peer-to-peer techniques applied to a cluster interconnect - talk at CASS 2013 workshop in Boston (Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems), 20 May 2013. PDF available here
• Piero Vicini, Analysis of performance improvements for host and gpu interface of the APENet+ 3D Torus network. - talk at ACAT 2013 (15th International Workshop on advanced computing and analysis techniques in physics) in Beijing, 18 May 2013. Presentation available here
• Piero Vicini, GPU for Real Time processing in HEP trigger systems - talk at ACAT 2013 (15th International Workshop on advanced computing and analysis techniques in physics) in Beijing, 17 May 2013. Presentation available here
• Alessandro Lonardo, Building a Low-latency, Real-time, GPU-based Stream Processing System - talk at GTC 2013 conference in San Jose, 20 March 2013. Available in Video [23] and PDF [24]
• Davide Rossetti, Breadth First Search on APEnet+ - talk at IA^3 Workshop on Irregular Applications at SC12 conference, 10 Nov 2012. Presentation available here
• Roberto Ammendola, APEnet+: a 12x34 Gbps data transmission system with FPGAs embedded transceivers and QSFP+ modules. - Poster at NSS-12 Nuclear Science Symposium. Anaheim, California, October 29 – November 3, 2012. PDF available here
• Davide Rossetti, Multi GPU simulations: status and perspectives - talk given at New Frontiers in Lattice Gauge Theory workshop in Florence, 26 Sep 2012.
• Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Werner Geurts, Gert Goossens, Francesca Lo Cicero, Alessandro Lonardo, Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Davide Rossetti, Francesco Simula, Laura Tosoratto, Piero Vicini A heterogeneous many-core platform for experiments on scalable custom interconnects and management of fault and critical events, applied to many-process applications: Vol. II, technical report - arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1270, 2012
• Davide Rossetti, Leveraging NVIDIA GPUDirect on APEnet+ 3D Torus Cluster Interconnect - talk given at GTC 2012 conference. Video and pdf available here
• I. Bacivarov, I. Belaid, A. Biagioni, A. El Antably, N. Fournel, O. Frezza, W. Geurts, G. Goossens, J. Jovic, R. Leupers, F. Lo Cicero, A. Lonardo, L. Murillo, P. S. Paolucci, D. Rai, D. Rossetti, F. Rousseau, L. Schor, C. Schumacher, F. Simula, L. Thiele, L. Tosoratto, P. Vicini and H. Yang. EURETILE: Unified Networking Infrastructure for Embedded and HPC many-tile platforms. Poster at HIPEAC12. Jan 2012 Paris, France [[25]]
• P. S. Paolucci. Brain Simulation Benchmark: Inspiring and benchmarking the scalability and fault-tolerance of future many-tile systems. Poster at HIPEAC12. Jan 2012 Paris, France, [[26]]
• Davide Rossetti, Remote Direct Memory Access Between NVIDIA GPUs with the APEnet 3D Torus Interconnect - talk given at NVidia booth at Supercomputing 2011 conference. Video available here. PPTX of presentation is here
• Piero Vicini, QUonG: a GPU-based parallel processor system for scientific computing - talk given at SM&FT 2011 conference, Bari september 2011. Presentation available here
• Piero Vicini - talk given at SAAHPC Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing 2011, July 19-20, 2011. University of Tennessee Conference Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.
• Davide Rossetti, Status of the APEnet+ project - talk given at Lattice 2011 Conference, July 10-16 2011, Squaw Valley CA. Presentation avaialble here
• Davide Rossetti, Many-core platforms and HEP experiments computing - talk given at SuperB Computing R&D workshop, 4-7 July 2011, Ferrara, Italy.
• Davide Rossetti, Many-core platforms and HEP experiments computing - talk given at XVII SuperB Workshop and Kick Off meeting, May 28 - June 2 2011, Isola d'Elba, Italy
• Davide Rossetti, Mastering Multi-GPU Computing on a Torus Network - poster at GTC 2010 conference, Sept 2010, San Jose CA.
• Roberto Ammendola APENet+: a 3D Toroidal Network Enabling PetaFlops Scale Lattice QCD Simulations on Commodity Clusters - talk given at Lattice 2010, Villasimius 18 June 2010 [27].
• Roberto Ammendola, Review on the GPU-related activities in INFN - talk given at INFN CCR & GRID workshop, 17-21 May 2010, Acireale, Italy

M.S. Theses

2016

• Flavio Pisani, Interconnection networks simulation for exascale computing systems dedicated to scientific applications, Master Thesis in Physics, Sapienza - Università di Roma. File:Tesi flavio pisani.pdf

2014

• Luca Pontisso, Caratterizzazione della scheda di comunicazione NaNet e suo utilizzo nel Trigger di Livello 0 basato su GPU dell’esperimento NA62, Master Thesis in Physics, Sapienza - Università di Roma. PDF