The project aims at setting up an advanced cyberinfrastructure based on dedicated optical networks to support collaborative research application. The aim of Cybersar computational infrastructure is to support innovative computational applications by using leading edge hardware and technological solutions and to provide an experimental platform for research on the enabling technologies that will power next generation cyberinfrastructures.
\nResearch activities are organized into 13 workpackages. CRS4 is directly involved in 7 WP:<\/p>\n
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Prior to joining CRS4, he held research and\/or teaching positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore MD, USA, and the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (NASA\/CESDIS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA. At CRS4, Enrico develops and manages a research program in visual and data-intensive computing supported through institutional, industrial and government grants, including many national and international projects. His research spans many areas of visual and data-intensive computing and is widely published in major journals and conferences. The primary focus is the study and creation of innovative, intelligent, and scalable solutions for acquiring, creating, processing, distributing, exploring, and analyzing complex and\/or massive datasets derived from simulations or measurements of phenomena, objects, environments, or real-world processes. He regularly serves the scientific community through participation in editorial boards, program committees, working groups and steering boards, as well as through the organization and chairing of conferences. He is a Fellow of Eurographics.","post_title":"Enrico Gobbetti","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"enrico-gobbetti","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-29 16:11:36","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-29 14:11:36","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/enrico-gobbetti\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":10141,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:03","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:03","post_content":"Fabio Bettio is an electronics engineer, software developer, and technologist specializing in visual computing and scientific visualization. He has strong expertise in GPU-accelerated and web-based rendering, with a solid background in C++, OpenGL\/WebGL, GLSL, and WebXR development. He is a contributor to OpenLIME, an open-source platform for interactive visualization and relightable model rendering in scientific and cultural heritage contexts. In addition to software development, he has extensive experience as a Linux system and HPC cluster administrator. He has developed tools for system and UPS monitoring, implemented automated backup solutions, and manages web infrastructures based on CMSs for research initiatives and international conferences such as Eurographics and EuroVis. His scientific contributions have been published in top-tier journals such as ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Computers & Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), and Solar Energy. His work has also been presented at renowned international conferences, including Eurographics, EuroVis, ISMAR, and Digital Heritage.","post_title":"Fabio Bettio","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"fabio-bettio","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-29 16:10:12","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-29 14:10:12","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/fabio-bettio\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10283,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:15","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:15","post_content":"Fabio Marton is a researcher in the Visual Computing (ViC) group at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4). He holds a Laurea (M. Sc.) degree (1999) in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova. His current research interests include out-of-core data processing, compression multiresolution modeling and time-critical rendering. He has participated as a key developer in industrial and research projects that have led to the development of state-of-the-art tools for large scale model rendering. He has co-authored papers in major international refereed journals and conferences, including SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, and IEEE Visualization. He has been EGPGV (Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics) symposium chair (Cagliari, 2012) and paper co-chair (Girona, 2013). He is IPC member for Web3D from 2011. He serves as reviewer for international computer graphics journals and conferences. Before joining CRS4, he worked on 3D scanning at LMTT Padova and Optonet Brescia.","post_title":"Fabio Marton","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"fabio-marton","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-29 16:12:31","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-29 14:12:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/fabio-marton\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10088,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:25:19","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:25:19","post_content":"Project Leader and Senior Researcher at the Visual and Data Intensive Computing (VIDiC) group at CRS4, Giovanni Pintore specializes in advanced technologies for visual data processing and visualization.He holds a Master%u2019s Degree in Electronic Engineering (pre-reform system) from the University of Cagliari and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from the University of A Coru\u00f1a (UDC).His research interests include: Artificial intelligence for VR model generation from spherical images Indoor scene reconstruction using deep learning techniques 3D reconstruction of indoor structures and environments from images Multiresolution representations of large and complex 3D models He leads national and international research and industrial projects, with applications in the fields of security, space exploration, and smart cities. He serves as program chair, editor, and reviewer for various international conferences and journals.","post_title":"Giovanni Pintore","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"giovanni-pintore","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-29 16:13:34","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-29 14:13:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/giovanni-pintore\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10281,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:12","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:12","post_content":"Senior researcher at CRS4, he is head of the Environmental Sciences branch of the Energy & Environment program. His research interests are related to meteorological mesoscale ensemble prediction, climatic modelling and environmental data analysis. Currently, between the others, he is involved in the EU-H2020 Netfficient project for the development of a energy production, from renewable sources, forecasting system. Recently involved in the EU-FP7 CLIMB project in which CRS4 evaluated and compared the skill of various regional climate models as boundary conditions for hydrological modelling scenario studies in the Mediterranean basin area. Within the projects GRIDA3 and CYBERSAR, funded by the Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), he was involved in setting up a multi-model multianalysis limited area ensemble to be run on a GRID infrastructure and\/or remote computing portals. He has been involved in many other European and Italian research programs: FP7, Interreg IIC, FP6, for European Southern Observatory, for the Italian Space Agency, MIUR, National Council of Research (CNR), Italian Electric Power Company (ENEL).","post_title":"Marino Marrocu","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"marino-marrocu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-29 16:12:29","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-29 14:12:29","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/marino-marrocu\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10183,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:26","post_content":"Pierluigi Cau holds a Laurea (M.Sc.) degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of Cagliari and works at CRS4 as a reasercher in the Environmental Sciences program of the Energy and Environment sector since 2000. His research topics are focused on computational hydrology, Geographical Information Systems and development of innovative WEB ICT tools for the management of water and soil resources. He organized international workshops\/conferences and taught advanced courses on hydrological (both superficial and groundwater) modeling at universities. He has tutored several stagers and early stage researchers.","post_title":"Pierluigi Cau","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pierluigi-cau","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-29 16:10:36","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-29 14:10:36","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/pierluigi-cau\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10249,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:33","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:33","post_content":"After a twenty-year career in scientific research, in 2010 Giuditta Lecca moved into the management sector, specializing on facilitating information exchange and collaboration between people. Since then, she is the Head of the Program \"Valorisation and Transfer of Knowledge\" (VALE) and, from September 2012 to October 2016, she was also serving as acting Director of the Sector \"Business Development\" (BD). Before she was a senior researcher in Environmental Sciences of the Energy and Environment Program. She holds a Civil Engineering degree (1991) from the University of Cagliari and a Master on Valorisation and Management of Human Resources from the Catholic University of Milan and Confindustria (2005). Her research is focused on computational hydrogeology and high-performance computing, and it is published in major journals and conferences. From 1998 to 2010 she was scientific responsible for 8+ R&D projects at the regional, national and european level and tutor of 10+ stagers and early-stage researchers. Since 2004 she has organized and chaired international workshops and conferences and taught advanced courses at universities on groundwater modeling. In 2007 she received in Maputo the IEEE Best Paper Award at the IST Africa Conference in Mozambique. She served extensively as reviewer for scientific international journals and, from 2007 to 2009, as Associated Editor of the Hydrogeology Journal edited by Springer. In the last 10 years she has focused her interests, either through professional practice that with professional certifications, on project management, intellectual property rights, funding policies and instruments, business intelligence and strategic leadership of scientific research and technological innovation.Professional certifications: Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills, University of Michigan, nov 2015; Intellectual Property Law and Policy (part 1-mar 2016, part 2-feb 2018) University of Pennsylvania; Private Equity and Venture Capital, Universit\u00e0 Bocconi, jul 2016; PM9001x: Project Management Life Cycle, Rochester Institute of Technology, apr 2017. Further information at the Linkedin personal page","post_title":"Giuditta Lecca","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"giuditta-lecca","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-29 16:11:55","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-29 14:11:55","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/giuditta-lecca\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n |