Accelerating cosmological simulations on GPUs: A step towards sustainability and green-awareness.

Giuliano Taffoni https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4211-6816 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58926582

Giovanni Lacopo M. D. Lepinzan David Goz Giuliano Taffoni Luca Tornatore P. Monaco Pascal Jahan Elahi Ugo Varetto Maciej Cytowski Lubomir Riha Accelerating cosmological simulations on GPUs: A step towards sustainability and green-awareness. 2026 101060 55 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2026.101060 db/journals/ascom/ascom55.html#LacopoLGTTMEVCR26 streams/journals/ascom

Giovanni Lacopo Emanuele De Rubeis Claudio Gheller Giuliano Taffoni Luca Tornatore Accelerating radio astronomy imaging with RICK: A step towards SKA-Mid and SKA-Low. 2026 101074 55 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2026.101074 db/journals/ascom/ascom55.html#LacopoRGTT26 streams/journals/ascom

Alice Damiano Stefano Borgani Giuseppe Murante Milena Valentini Luca Tornatore Giuliano Taffoni Numerical solutions for black hole feeding and feedback in cosmological simulations with OpenGADGET3. 2026 101117 56 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2026.101117 db/journals/ascom/ascom56.html#DamianoBMVTT26 streams/journals/ascom

Chaitra Antonio Ragagnin Milena Valentini Giuseppe Murante Stefano Borgani Giuliano Taffoni Variability in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations: How stochastic processes, numerical effects, and reproducibility limits impact predictability. 2026 101127 56 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2026.101127 db/journals/ascom/ascom56.html#ChaitraRVMBT26 streams/journals/ascom

M. D. Lepinzan Giovanni Lacopo David Goz Giuliano Taffoni P. Monaco Pascal Jahan Elahi Ugo Varetto Maciej Cytowski Accelerating cosmological simulations on GPUs: A portable approach using OpenMP. 2026 101149 57 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2026.101149 db/journals/ascom/ascom57.html#LepinzanLGTMEVC26 streams/journals/ascom

Giovanni Lacopo Emanuele De Rubeis Claudio Gheller Giuliano Taffoni Luca Tornatore Accelerating radio astronomy imaging with RICK: a step towards SKA-Mid and SKA-Low. 2026 January abs/2601.19714 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.19714 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-19714 streams/journals/corr

Emanuele De Rubeis Giovanni Lacopo Claudio Gheller Luca Tornatore Giuliano Taffoni Accelerating radio astronomy imaging with RICK. 100895 2025 50 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2024.100895 db/journals/ascom/ascom50.html#RubeisLGTT25 streams/journals/ascom

Stefano Alberto Russo Giuliano Taffoni Luca Bortolussi Timeseria: An object-oriented time series processing library. 102036 2025 29 SoftwareX https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2025.102036 db/journals/softx/softx29.html#RussoTB25 streams/journals/softx

Nitin Shukla Alessandro Romeo Caterina Caravita Lubomir Riha Ondrej Vysocky Petr Strakos Milan Jaros João Barbosa Radim Vavrík Andrea Mignone Marco Rossazza Stefano Truzzi Vittoria Berta Iacopo Colonnelli Doriana Medic Elisabetta Boella Daniele Gregori Eva Sciacca Luca Tornatore Giuliano Taffoni Pranab J. Deka Fabio Bacchini Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm Georgios Doulis Khalil Pierre Luciano Rezzolla Tine Colman Benoît Commerçon Othman Bouizi Matthieu Kuhn Erwan Raffin Marc Sergent Robert Wissing Guillermo Marin Klaus Dolag Geray S. Karademir Gino Perna Marisa Zanotti Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez EuroHPC SPACE CoE: Redesigning Scalable Parallel Astrophysical Codes for Exascale. Invited Paper. 177-184 2025 CF (Companion) https://doi.org/10.1145/3706594.3728892 conf/cf/2025c db/conf/cf/cf2025c.html#ShuklaRCRVSJBVM25 Emanuele De Rubeis Claudio Gheller Giovanni Lacopo Luca Tornatore Pascal Jahan Elahi Maciej Cytowski Giuliano Taffoni Ugo Varetto HPC and GPU solutions for radio interferometry using RICK. 388-395 2025 PDP https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP66500.2025.00061 conf/pdp/2025 db/conf/pdp/pdp2025.html#RubeisGLTECTV25 streams/conf/pdp

Giovanni Lacopo Claudio Gheller Emanuele De Rubeis Pascal Jahan Elahi Maciej Cytowski Luca Tornatore Giuliano Taffoni Ugo Varetto Green computing toward SKA era with RICK. 2025 April abs/2504.00959 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.00959 db/journals/corr/corr2504.html#abs-2504-00959 streams/journals/corr

Nitin Shukla Alessandro Romeo Caterina Caravita Lubomir Riha Ondrej Vysocky Petr Strakos Milan Jaros João Barbosa Radim Vavrík Andrea Mignone Marco Rossazza Stefano Truzzi Vittoria Berta Iacopo Colonnelli Doriana Medic Elisabetta Boella Daniele Gregori Eva Sciacca Luca Tornatore Giuliano Taffoni Pranab J. Deka Fabio Bacchini Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm Georgios Doulis Khalil Pierre Luciano Rezzolla Tine Colman Benoît Commerçon Othman Bouizi Matthieu Kuhn Erwan Raffin Marc Sergent Robert Wissing Guillermo Marin Klaus Dolag Geray S. Karademir Gino Perna Marisa Zanotti Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez EuroHPC SPACE CoE: Redesigning Scalable Parallel Astrophysical Codes for Exascale. 2025 December abs/2512.18883 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.18883 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-18883 streams/journals/corr

Stefano Alberto Russo Giuliano Taffoni Luca Bortolussi Timeseria: an object-oriented time series processing library. 2024 abs/2410.09567 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.09567 db/journals/corr/corr2410.html#abs-2410-09567 streams/journals/corr

Claudio Gheller Giuliano Taffoni David Goz High Performance W-stacking for Imaging Radio Astronomy Data: a Parallel and Accelerated Solution. 2023 abs/2301.06061 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.06061 db/journals/corr/corr2301.html#abs-2301-06061

Giuliano Taffoni Sara Bertocco Dave Morris Manuel Parra-Royón Klaas Kliffen Marco Molinaro 0003 John D. Swinbank Susana Sánchez-Expósito Feasibility of access EGI resources through the ESCAPE developed ESFRI Science Analysis Platform. 2023 abs/2301.09978 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.09978 db/journals/corr/corr2301.html#abs-2301-09978

Stefano Alberto Russo Sara Bertocco Claudio Gheller Giuliano Taffoni Rosetta: A container-centric science platform for resource-intensive, interactive data analysis. 100648 2022 41 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2022.100648 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125847505 db/journals/ascom/ascom41.html#RussoBGT22

Giuliano Taffoni Ugo Becciani Annalisa Bonafede Etienne Bonnassieux Gianfranco Brunetti Marisa Brienza Claudio Gheller Stefano Alberto Russo Fabio Vitello A distributed computing infrastructure for LOFAR Italian community. 2022 abs/2201.11526 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11526 db/journals/corr/corr2201.html#abs-2201-11526

Stefano Alberto Russo Sara Bertocco Claudio Gheller Giuliano Taffoni Rosetta: a container-centric science platform for resource-intensive, interactive data analysis. 2022 abs/2209.02003 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.02003 db/journals/corr/corr2209.html#abs-2209-02003

David Goz Georgios Ieronymakis Vassilis Papaefstathiou Nikolaos Dimou Sara Bertocco Francesco Simula Antonio Ragagnin Luca Tornatore Igor Coretti Giuliano Taffoni Performance and Energy Footprint Assessment of FPGAs and GPUs on HPC Systems Using Astrophysics Application. 34 2020 8 Comput. 2 https://doi.org/10.3390/computation8020034 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111909697 db/journals/computation/computation8.html#GozIPDBSRTCT20

Giuliano Taffoni Ugo Becciani Bianca Garilli Gianmarco Maggio Fabio Pasian Grazia Umana Riccardo Smareglia Fabio Vitello CHIPP: INAF pilot project for HTC, HPC and HPDA. 2020 abs/2002.01283 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01283 db/journals/corr/corr2002.html#abs-2002-01283

David Goz Georgios Ieronymakis Vassilis Papaefstathiou Nikolaos Dimou Sara Bertocco Giuliano Taffoni Francesco Simula Antonio Ragagnin Luca Tornatore Igor Coretti Performance and energy footprint assessment of FPGAs and GPUs on HPC systems using Astrophysics application. 2020 abs/2003.03283 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03283 db/journals/corr/corr2003.html#abs-2003-03283

Giuliano Taffoni Manolis Katevenis Renato Panchieri Gino Perna Luca Tornatore David Goz Antonio Ragagnin Sara Bertocco Igor Coretti Manolis Marazakis Fabien Chaix Manolis Ploumidis Towards Exascale: Measuring the Energy Footprint of Astrophysics HPC Simulations. 403-412 2019 eScience https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2019.00052 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111909707 conf/eScience/2019 db/conf/eScience/eScience2019.html#TaffoniKPPTGRBC19 Georgios Ieronymakis Vassilis Papaefstathiou Nikolaos Dimou Sara Bertocco Antonio Ragagnin Luca Tornatore Giuliano Taffoni Igor Coretti Direct N-Body Application on Low-Power and Energy-Efficient Parallel Architectures. 583-592 2019 PARCO https://doi.org/10.3233/APC200088 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111909700 conf/parco/2019 db/conf/parco/parco2019.html#IeronymakisPDBR19

Marco Landoni Giuliano Taffoni Andrea Bignamini Riccardo Smareglia Application of Google Cloud Platform in Astrophysics. 2019 abs/1903.03337 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03337 db/journals/corr/corr1903.html#abs-1903-03337

Giuliano Taffoni Giuseppe Murante Luca Tornatore David Goz Stefano Borgani Manolis Katevenis Nikolaos Chrysos Manolis Marazakis Shall numerical astrophysics step into the era of Exascale computing? 2019 abs/1904.11720 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11720 db/journals/corr/corr1904.html#abs-1904-11720

David Goz Giorgos Ieronymakis Vassilis Papaefstathiou Nikolaos Dimou Sara Bertocco Antonio Ragagnin Luca Tornatore Giuliano Taffoni Igor Coretti Direct N-body application on low-power and energy-efficient parallel architectures. 2019 abs/1910.14496 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14496 db/journals/corr/corr1910.html#abs-1910-14496

Chaitra Sara Bertocco Marco Molinaro 0003 Sergio Molinari Antonio Ragagnin Giuliano Taffoni Exposing SED Models And Snapshots Via VO Simulation Artefacts. 2019 abs/1911.10892 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10892 db/journals/corr/corr1911.html#abs-1911-10892

Sara Bertocco Patrick Dowler S. Gaudet B. Major Fabio Pasian Giuliano Taffoni Cloud access to interoperable IVOA-compliant VOSpace storage. 36-44 2018 24 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2018.05.003 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58921542 db/journals/ascom/ascom24.html#BertoccoDGMPT18

Manolis Katevenis Roberto Ammendola Andrea Biagioni Paolo Cretaro Ottorino Frezza Francesca Lo Cicero Alessandro Lonardo Michele Martinelli Pier Stanislao Paolucci Elena Pastorelli Francesco Simula Piero Vicini Giuliano Taffoni Jose Antonio Pascual Javier Navaridas Mikel Luján John Goodacre Bernd Lietzow Martin L. Kersten Next generation of Exascale-class systems: ExaNeSt project and the status of its interconnect and storage development. 58-71 2018 61 Microprocess. Microsystems https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2018.05.009 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q109101588 db/journals/mam/mam61.html#KatevenisABCFCL18

Roberto Ammendola Andrea Biagioni Paolo Cretaro Ottorino Frezza Francesca Lo Cicero Alessandro Lonardo Michele Martinelli Pier Stanislao Paolucci Elena Pastorelli Francesco Simula Piero Vicini Giuliano Taffoni Jose Antonio Pascual Javier Navaridas Mikel Luján John Goodacre Nikolaos Chrysos Manolis Katevenis The Next Generation of Exascale-Class Systems: The ExaNeSt Project. 510-515 2017 DSD https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD.2017.20 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DSD.2017.20 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111909716 conf/dsd/2017 db/conf/dsd/dsd2017.html#AmmendolaBCFCLM17

David Goz Luca Tornatore Giuliano Taffoni Giuseppe Murante Cosmological Simulations in Exascale Era. 2017 abs/1712.00252 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00252 db/journals/corr/corr1712.html#abs-1712-00252

Junaid Arshad Gábor Terstyánszky Tamás Kiss Noam Weingarten Giuliano Taffoni A Formal Approach to Support Interoperability in Scientific Meta-workflows. 655-671 2016 14 J. Grid Comput. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-016-9383-x https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111909719 db/journals/grid/grid14.html#ArshadTKWT16

Manolis Katevenis Nikolaos Chrysos Manolis Marazakis Iakovos Mavroidis Fabien Chaix Nikolaos D. Kallimanis Javier Navaridas John Goodacre Piero Vicini Andrea Biagioni Pier Stanislao Paolucci Alessandro Lonardo Elena Pastorelli Francesca Lo Cicero Roberto Ammendola P. Hopton P. Coates Giuliano Taffoni Stefano Cozzini Martin L. Kersten Y. Zhang Julio Sahuquillo Sergio Lechago C. Pinto Bernd Lietzow D. Everett Gino Perna The ExaNeSt Project: Interconnects, Storage, and Packaging for Exascale Systems. 60-67 2016 DSD https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD.2016.106 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DSD.2016.106 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58746750 conf/dsd/2016 db/conf/dsd/dsd2016.html#KatevenisCMMCKN16

Giuliano Castelli Giuliano Taffoni Eva Sciacca Ugo Becciani Alessandro Costa Mel Krokos Fabio Pasian Claudio Vuerli VO-compliant workflows and science gateways. 102-108 2015 11 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2015.02.006 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58921567 db/journals/ascom/ascom11.html#CastelliTSBCKPV15

Giuliano Taffoni Eva Sciacca Adriano Pietrinferni Ugo Becciani Alessandro Costa Santi Cassisi Fabio Pasian Danilo Pelusi Claudio Vuerli Feeding an astrophysical database via distributed computing resources: The case of BaSTI. 109-118 2015 11 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2015.02.001 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58921563 db/journals/ascom/ascom11.html#TaffoniSPBCCPPV15

Eva Sciacca Ugo Becciani Alessandro Costa Fabio Vitello Pietro Massimino Marilena Bandieramonte Mel Krokos Simone Riggi Costantino Pistagna Giuliano Taffoni An integrated visualization environment for the virtual observatory: Current status and future directions. 146-154 2015 11 Astron. Comput. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2015.01.006 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111909721 db/journals/ascom/ascom11.html#SciaccaBCVMBKRP15

Sílvia Delgado Olabarriaga Gabriele Pierantoni Giuliano Taffoni Eva Sciacca Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori Vladimir Korkhov Giuliano Castelli Claudio Vuerli Ugo Becciani Eoin Carley Bob Bentley Scientific Workflow Management - For Whom? 298-305 2014 eScience https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2014.8 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/eScience.2014.8 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111909732 conf/eScience/2014 db/conf/eScience/eScience2014.html#OlabarriagaPTSJKCVBCB14 Ugo Becciani Eva Sciacca Alessandro Costa Piero Massimino Fabio Vitello Santi Cassisi Adriano Pietrinferni Giuliano Castelli Cristina Knapic Riccardo Smareglia Giuliano Taffoni Claudio Vuerli Marian Jakubik Lubos Neslusan Mel Krokos Gong-Bo Zhao Creating Gateway Alliances Using WS-PGRADE/gUSE. 255-270 2014 Science Gateways for Distributed Computing Infrastructures https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11268-8_18 books/sp/Ka2014 db/books/collections/Ka2014.html#BeccianiSCMVCPCKSTVJNKZ14

Giuliano Taffoni Santi Cassisi Patrizia Manzato Marco Molinaro 0003 Fabio Pasian Adriano Pietrinferni Maurizio Salaris Claudio Vuerli Grid and Databases: BaSTI as a Practical Integration Example. 223-240 2010 8 J. Grid Comput. 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-010-9154-z https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58921586 db/journals/grid/grid8.html#TaffoniCMMPPSV10

Johan Montagnat Tristan Glatard Isabel Campos Plasencia Francisco Castejón Xavier Pennec Giuliano Taffoni Vladimir Voznesensky Claudio Vuerli Workflow-Based Data Parallel Applications on the EGEE Production Grid Infrastructure. 369-383 2008 6 J. Grid Comput. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-008-9108-x https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111909739 db/journals/grid/grid6.html#MontagnatGPCPTVV08

Giuliano Taffoni Davide Maino Claudio Vuerli Giuliano Castelli Riccardo Smareglia Andrea Zacchei Fabio Pasian Enabling Grid technologies for Planck space mission. 189-200 2007 23 Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2006.04.020 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58921514 db/journals/fgcs/fgcs23.html#TaffoniMVCSZP07

Edgardo Ambrosi Antonia Ghiselli Giuliano Taffoni GDSE: A New Data Source Oriented Computing Element for Grid. 53-57 2006 conf/pdcn/2006 Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks db/conf/pdcn/pdcn2006.html#AmbrosiGT06 Giuliano Taffoni Davide Maino Claudio Vuerli Giuliano Castelli Riccardo Smareglia Andrea Zacchei Torsten A. Ensslin Fabio Pasian Enabling Grid Technologies for Simulating the Planck LFI Simulated Mission. 159-164 2005 conf/camp/2005 CAMP https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMP.2005.24 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CAMP.2005.24 db/conf/camp/camp2005.html#TaffoniMVCSZEP05 Edgardo Ambrosi Roberto Ammendola Junaid Arshad Fabio Bacchini Marilena Bandieramonte João Barbosa Ugo Becciani Bob Bentley Vittoria Berta Sara Bertocco Andrea Biagioni Andrea Bignamini Elisabetta Boella Annalisa Bonafede Etienne Bonnassieux Stefano Borgani Luca Bortolussi Othman Bouizi Marisa Brienza Gianfranco Brunetti Caterina Caravita Eoin Carley Santi Cassisi Francisco Castejón-MagañaFrancisco Castejón Giuliano Castelli Chaitra Fabien Chaix Nikolaos Chrysos Francesca Lo Cicero P. Coates Tine Colman Iacopo Colonnelli Benoît Commerçon Igor Coretti Alessandro Costa Stefano Cozzini Paolo Cretaro Maciej Cytowski Alice Damiano Pranab J. Deka Nikolaos Dimou Klaus Dolag Georgios Doulis Patrick Dowler Pascal Jahan Elahi Torsten A. EnßlinTorsten A. Ensslin D. Everett Ottorino Frezza Bianca Garilli S. Gaudet Claudio Gheller Antonia Ghiselli Tristan Glatard John Goodacre David Goz Daniele Gregori P. Hopton Giorgos IeronymakisGeorgios Ieronymakis Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori Marian Jakubik Milan Jaros Nikolaos D. Kallimanis Geray S. Karademir Manolis Katevenis Martin L. Kersten Tamás Kiss Klaas Kliffen Cristina Knapic Vladimir Korkhov Mel Krokos Matthieu Kuhn Giovanni Lacopo Marco Landoni Sergio Lechago M. D. Lepinzan Bernd Lietzow Alessandro Lonardo Mikel Luján Gianmarco Maggio Davide Maino B. Major Patrizia Manzato Manolis Marazakis Guillermo Marin Michele Martinelli Piero Massimino Pietro Massimino Iakovos Mavroidis Doriana Medic Andrea Mignone Sergio Molinari Marco Molinaro 0003 P. Monaco Johan Montagnat Dave Morris Giuseppe Murante Javier Navaridas Lubos Neslusan Sílvia Delgado Olabarriaga Renato Panchieri Pier Stanislao Paolucci Vassilis Papaefstathiou Manuel Parra-Royón Jose Antonio Pascual Fabio Pasian Elena Pastorelli Danilo Pelusi Xavier Pennec Gino Perna Gabriele Pierantoni Khalil Pierre Adriano Pietrinferni C. Pinto Costantino Pistagna Isabel Campos Plasencia Manolis Ploumidis Erwan Raffin Antonio Ragagnin Luciano Rezzolla Simone Riggi Lubomir Riha Alessandro Romeo Marco Rossazza Emanuele De Rubeis Stefano Alberto Russo Julio Sahuquillo Maurizio Salaris Susana Sánchez-Expósito Eva Sciacca Marc Sergent Nitin Shukla Francesco Simula Riccardo Smareglia Petr Strakos John D. Swinbank Gábor Terstyánszky Luca Tornatore Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez Stefano Truzzi Grazia Umana Milena Valentini Ugo Varetto Radim Vavrík Piero Vicini Fabio Vitello Vladimir Voznesensky Claudio Vuerli Ondrej Vysocky Noam Weingarten Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm Robert Wissing Andrea Zacchei Marisa Zanotti Y. Zhang Gong-Bo Zhao