HII-DI – High Impact Initiative – Digital Industry (FBK - ICT Centre)
HII-DI – High Impact Initiative – Digital Industry (FBK - ICT Centre)

Overview

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is a private non-profit research foundation, established by the government of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy). It employs about 410 researchers, graduates, post-doc students, and visiting professors, and conducts research in several areas, organized in different research centers in both scientific and humanistic topics.

Throughout 50 years of history, FBK has developed a broad network of domestic and international alliances and partnerships, hosting and attending international congresses and conferences, publishing thousands of papers, dozens of patents and innovative ideas.

The Bruno Kessler Center in Information and Communication Technology (FBK-ICT Irst Center) focuses on high quality research with impact to market and society. FBK- ICT Irst (formerly simply called IRST) is an internationally renowned center established in 1986 for conducting research on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It was the first center in Italy fully dedicated to AI and it is still the… The Kore system is made up of about 1.436 cores (based on Intel Xeon processors) and 439TB of distributed storage, interconnected both among and within computers by a high speed network ranging from 1Gbit/s to 10Gbit/s with some branches running on InfiniBand, a low latency network featuring very high throughput. In the last years some node for GPGPU calculation are been installed: at the moment The Kore system has 6 nodes with two Nvidia Tesla K80 cards, 1 node with 4 Nvidia Tesla V100 cards and 1 node with 8 Nvidia GTX1080TI cards to perform parallel programming on the CUDA platform.

This is in a renovation phase, redefining technologies and structure.
. The Line offers an approach of research driven by technology transfer, following these phases: (i) direct research efforts on themes of practical relevance; (ii) develop support tools at high TRL; (iii) transfer the results in applicative setting; (iv) identify new themes of practical relevance.

Offered services are of design, prototyping, testing, validation and development of innovative solutions with specific attention for the fields of: Optical Metrology; Technologies of Vision; Machine Translation; Open IoT; Embedded Systems and Software Engineering.
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