Biography

Philipp is head of the Research Center HPC at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He graduated in the Doctoral Programme Computational Interdisciplinary Modelling in Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, focusing on performance and energy analysis and optimization of parallel programs. Philipp’s main interests lie in research and training in high performance computing and scientific computing, including adjacent topics such as programming model design, runtime systems, or compiler research. He collaborated in multiple national and international projects (e.g. H2020 PRACE-6IP, EuroHPC LIGATE, H2020 AllScale, numerous PRACE and EuroHPC Access projects, CHIST-ERA GEMSCLAIM, FWF/DST EASE, FFG AutoCore) and co-organized multiple international conferences.

Interests

  • High Performance Computing
  • Scientific Computing
  • Parallel Software and Hardware Architectures

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2017

    University of Innsbruck

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2010

    University of Innsbruck

News

  • Peter Thoman and I were elected into the steering committee of HLPP (February 2026)
  • Our second paper on high-resolution simulations of LS 5039 in Astronomy & Astrophysics was accepted (December 2025)
  • Parental leave! (November 2025)
  • Our paper on high-level abstractions for advanced accelerator cluster programming in FCGS was accepted (October 2025)
  • Happy to serve on the search committee for our new quantum computer science professorship (September 2025)
  • Just realized: 3 papers accepted at 19th Conference of IBPSA in Brisbane, this is getting out of hand… (August 2025)
  • Finalizing organization of HLPP in Innsbruck in July, looking forward (June 2025)
  • Attending ASHPC as every year, great user meeting on HPC in Austria (May 2025)
  • Our paper on strided data movement on GPUs was awarded best paper at IWOCL 2025 (April 2025)
  • I’m supervising a master student in collaboration with MED-EL on the use of AI in medical image analysis (March 2025)

Recent Projects

Antibody Ensembles in Solution as a New Paradigm in Antibody Structure Prediction

PRACE Access (2022-2023)

Bootcamp POS Tirol

FFG (2024)

HackaPrompt

EUREGIO (2024)

kmMountains

PRACE Access (2020-2023)

Particle Acceleration and Gamma-Ray Emission in the LS5039 System

PRACE Access (2020-2021)

PRACE-6IP

H2020 (2019-2022)

Inpact

FFG (2018-2021)

Ligate

EuroHPC (2021-2023)

UMUGUC

FFG (2023-2026)

AllScale

H2020 (2015-2018)

Celerity

DACH (2017-2021)

Recent & Upcoming Talks & Courses

VSC OpenMP Training Course September 2024

Sep 16, 2024 2:00 PM — Sep 18, 2024 12:15 PM Vienna, Austria (online)
Philipp Gschwandtner, Lukas Einkemmer, Claudia Blaas-Schenner, Ivan Vialov

VSC OpenMP Training Course April 2024

Apr 29, 2024 9:00 AM — Apr 30, 2024 4:30 PM Vienna, Austria (online)
Philipp Gschwandtner, Lukas Einkemmer, Claudia Blaas-Schenner, Ivan Vialov

VSC/PRACE OpenMP Training Course December 2023

Dec 4, 2023 9:00 AM — Dec 5, 2023 4:30 PM Vienna, Austria (online)
Philipp Gschwandtner, Lukas Einkemmer, Martina Prugger, Claudia Blaas-Schenner
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Recent Publications

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Achieving High-throughput Strided Data Movement Across GPUs

Peter Thoman, Philipp Gschwandtner

LIGATE - LIgand Generator and portable drug discovery platform AT Exascale

Gianluca Palermo, Gianmarco Accordi, Davide Gadioli, Zhang Yuedong, Emanuele Vitali, Bruno Guindani, Danilo Ardagna, Cristina Silvano, Andrea Rosario, Domenico Bonanni, Carmine Talarico, F Lughini, A D Biswas, Jan Martinovic, Martin Golasowski, P Silva, A Bohm, Jakub Beranek, Jan Krenek, Branislav Jansik, Peter Thoman, Philip Salzmann, Thomas Fahringer, T Schwede Biozentrum, L T Alexander Biozentrum, G Tauriello Biozentrum, J Durairaj Biozentrum, Biagio Cosenza, Luigi Crisci, A Emerson, Federico Ficarelli, Erik Lindahl, S Wingbermühle, Daniele Gregori, S Coletti, E Sana, Philipp Gschwandtner
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Celerity-RSim - Porting Light Propagation Simulation to Accelerator Clusters using a High-Level API

Peter Thoman, Philipp Gschwandtner, Facundo Molina Heredia, Thomas Fahringer
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Community Service

Organization

  • Steering Committe Member for HLPP 2026-
  • Guest Editor for IJPP Special Issue 2025
  • General Chair of HLPP 2025
  • Co-Organizer of eScience 2021-2025
  • Member of the advisory board of the Department of Computer Science 2023-2025
  • Co-Organizer of HCQS 2024
  • Co-Organizer of the EUREGIO Hackaprompt Challenge 2024
  • Member of the Curriculumskommission for Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (MIP) @ UIBK (2019-2025)
  • Co-Organizer of the PRACE Winter School 2021 - GPU Programming with CUDA (2021)
  • Co-Organizer of the EUREGIO HPCDSI School (2020)
  • Co-Organizer of the PRACE Winter School 2020 - GPU Programming with CUDA (2020)

Committee Member

  • PC member of HPDC 2026
  • PC member of ICPP 2026
  • PC member of Euro-Par 2023-2026
  • Application Reviewer for Int. HPC Summer School 2026
  • PC member of ASHPC 2025-2026
  • PC member of PECS 2025-2026
  • Reviewer for the Vienna Scientific Cluster/Austrian Scientific Computing
  • PC member of UCC 2023
  • PC member of eScience 2021, 2023
  • PC member of CCGrid 2017, 2019-2022
  • Artifact evaluation committee member of CF 2020
  • PC member of PDP 2015-2020
  • PC member of eScience 2020 (cancelled due to Covid-19)
  • Poster Committee member of HPDC 2017
  • PC member of FiCloud 2016

Journal Reviewer

  • Computing (Springer)
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
  • Journal of Cloud Computing
  • Journal of Cluster Computing
  • Journal of Grid Computing
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
  • Journal of Supercomputing
  • Parallel Computing (Elsevier)
  • SN Computer Science
  • Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
  • Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

Conference Reviewer

IPDPS (2022, 2020-2019), CCGrid (2021-2019, 2017), PDP (2020-2015), CF (2020-2018), Euro-Par (2020, 2017-2016, 2013), PASA (2018), ANDARE (2017), HPDC (2017, 2018), MCSoc (2016), FiCloud (2016), ICPE (2016), PACT (2015), UCC (2014), SBAC-PAD (2014), ICS (2014), IMPACT (2014), CLUSTER (2012), SC (2011), PARCO (2011)

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