The first three Italian graduates in High Performance Computing Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano were awarded their degrees on July 16, 2024.

Dedicated to high performance computing and its multiple applications in different scientific and technological fields, the High Performance Computing Engineering MSc course, whose responsible is Prof. Cristina Silvano from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, trains engineers with a solid background in the main computer technologies and architectures for supercomputing, quantum computing and mathematical-statistical modelling of complex problems.

Launched in 2022/23, this English-language MSc course has been developed in close collaboration with industries and supercomputing centres in response to the growing demand for experts capable of tackling complex problems in areas such as energy sustainability, climatology, genomics, medicine, chemistry, finance, computational biomechanics and aerospace. Thanks to supercomputing, which accelerates the analysis of large amounts of data and the execution of advanced artificial intelligence algorithms, the profile of the High Performance Computing Engineer, a multidisciplinary profile essential for the future of research and innovation, is being born in Italy.

The profile of the High Performance Computing Engineer that the Politecnico di Milano is proposing to train is completely new in the Italian landscape and aims to combine the most advanced knowledge in computer science, including quantum computing, with skills in mathematics, statistics and physics. Thanks to their skills in parallel and supercomputing, High Performance Computing Engineers will be able to speed up the analysis of large amounts of data, tackle computationally complex problems and the challenges posed by increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms.