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

  • 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)
  • I was asked to join the university’s sustainability advisory board to represent the MIP faculty (January 2025)
  • We started work on organizing HLPP 2025 in Innsbruck in July, stay updated! (January 2025)
  • My PULSE infrastructure proposal with Peter Thoman was accepted, 95k EUR for AI-focused hardware at the department of CS! Nice! (December 2024)
  • Started a new event series “ESC - Exchange in Scientific Computing” with an awesome talk given by Dieter Kranzlmüller of the LRZ (November 2024)
  • I’ve been awarded the MIP teaching award 2023/2024 (October 2024)
  • I’ve been asked to serve as program committee member for ASHPC 2025 (June 2024)

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

  • General Chair of the International Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications (2025)
  • Co-Organizer of the IEEE International Conference on eScience (2021-2025)
  • Member of the advisory board of the Department of Computer Science (2023-2025)
  • Co-Organizer of the HCQS - Hybrid Classical Quantum Systems Mini-Symposium (2024)
  • Co-Organizer of the EUREGIO Hackaprompt Challenge (2024)
  • Member of the Curriculumskommission for Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (MIP) @ UIBK (2019-)
  • 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 PECS 2025
  • PC member of ASHPC - Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting (2025)
  • Review Committee member for the Vienna Scientific Cluster
  • PC member of EuroPar - Int. Europ. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing (2023-2025)
  • PC member of UCC - Utility and Cloud Computing (2023)
  • PC member of eScience - Int. Conf. on eScience (2021, 2023)
  • PC member of CCGrid - Int. Symp. on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (2017, 2019-2022)
  • Artifact evaluation committee member of CF - Int. Conf. on Computing Frontiers (2020)
  • PC member of PDP - Int. Conf. on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (2015-2020)
  • PC member of eScience 2020 (cancelled due to Covid-19)
  • Poster Committee member of HPDC - Int. Symp. on High Performance Distributed Computing (2017)
  • PC member of FiCloud - Int. Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (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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