Piero Altoè - Paolo Masera

Piero Altoè

Dr. Piero Altoè graduated in Chemistry in 2002 at the University of Bologna, and then he obtained a PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2007. During his PhD period, he worked in the computational chemistry field, developing a chemical software within a combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) framework to study excited states in biological compounds. After his PhD, Piero worked as a post-doc until 2010, expanding the development of the QM/MM software, named COBRAMM suite.

In the period 2008-2010, in parallel with his research activity, he held the role of consultant for E4 Computer Engineering, an Emilian company that deals with assembling supercomputers for large computing centers and companies. In 2010, Dr. Altoè definitively left research to devote himself to commercial activity in the High-Performance Computing field at E4 company, where he worked until 2016 covering various roles, the last of which was Marketing Business Development Manager.

Finally, in 2016 he was hired at NVIDIA as Senior Business Development manager in the Scientific Computing area, oriented to large European research centers and universities. Currently Piero is Developer Relationship for the Energy sector at NVIDIA.

Paolo Masera

Currently  HPC & AI Sales Specialist at HPE in Italy, I worked 22 years in Altair. I am working in HCP since 2000, I  started as Sys Admin for CAE engineers and then for 20 years in Sales for Southern and Eastern Europe in the  Enterprise Computing division, followed relevant big projects in Public and Private Sector.

I live in Asti (knew for good food and wine) and work in HPE Italy HQ in Cernusco sul Naviglio (MI), I am part of the HPE HPC & AI EMEA Team.

Invited talk title: Acceleration on GPU of quantum chemistry applications.
Abstract available here.