Lucio GrandinettiLucio Grandinetti is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Engineering, Electronics, and Systems of University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy. At the same University, he holds the position of Vice Rector. He graduated from the University of Psa, Italy and the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a post-doc fellow at University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, Scotland.He was a member of the IEEE Committee on Parallel Processing, and European Editor of the MIT Press book series on Advanced Computational Methods and Engineering. Currently he is a member of the Editorial Board of four international journals. He is author of many research papers in well-established international journals and Editor or co-Editor of several books on algorithms, software, applications of Parallel Computing, HPC, Grids, and Clouds. He has been the recipient and scientific leader of many European Commission-funded projects since 1993 (e.g., Molecular Dynamics Simulations by MPP Systems, EUROMED, HPC Finance, WADI, and BEINGRID). Currently, he is Director of the Centre of Excellence on HPC established at the University of Calabria by the Italian government and Co-managing director of a Supercomputing Centre jointly established by the University of Calabria and NEC Corporation. Read More Read Less