Giovanni Bracco
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Giovanni Bracco, born in Bormio (Sondrio) Italy 1-1-1954.

1976
 Graduated cum laude in Physics at the Pavia University, Pavia (Italy): Thesis in Neutron Spectrometry field."Studio teorico e sperimentale di un metodo spettrometrico per neutroni veloci". The computational part of the thesis was performed at the Ispra JRC.
1977-1978
 System engineer in IBM-Italy Data Elaboration Center in Segrate, Milano, Italy:
software development in business field.
1978-1980
Euratom fellowship at CEA Fontenay-aux-roses, France:
research work on Neutral Beam Injection systems and NBI diagnostics, in the Controlled Nuclear Fusion domain.
1981-2018
 Permanent staff at ENEA CR Frascati, Frascati (Roma) Italy.

1981-2003 FUS, Nuclear Fusion Department.
  • Neutral Particle Analysis:
  • Development of software for the integrated analysis of tokamak data:
  • Plasma energy balance studies (FT,FTU,JET)
    • 1994-2001, Member of "ITER Confinement Database Working Group".
    • 2001-2003, Member of "International Tokamak Physics Activity, Confinement Database & Modelling Group"
    • 1994-1996, in charge of the "Energy transport project" of the "Divisione fisica sperimentale e diagnostica delle radiazioni".
    • 1998-2000, in charge of the "ECRH on current ramp-up Task Force".
    • 2000-2003, Member of the "International Internal Transport Barrier Database Group"
    • 2000, Member of the Scientific Committee of the 7th EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop and leader of the Core Transport Session.
2003 INFO, ENEA Information Service and Networks, from 2006 inside ENEA-FIM Departement
  • Support to software oriented to the nuclear fusion experiment and simulation
    • Shox utility
    • Member of Integrated Tokamak Modeling Task Force / CPP group, 2005-2006
    • Member of Integrated Tokamak Modeling Task Force / ISIP group, 2007
  • Linux Cluster
    • Openmosix
  • ENEAGRID: high performance and high throughput computing
    • OpenAFS, LSF, GPFS
    • CRESCO Project 2008
  • Grid Computing Projects 
    • Datagrid
    • EGEE, 2004
    • EGEE-II, 2006-2007, Member of the PCB, Project Collaboration Board
    • EGEE-III, 2008-2010
2010 UTICT, ENEA ICT Unit
  • In charge of  the HPC laboratory, ENEAGRID & CRESCO Clusters management and development.
2015 DTE-ICT Division, ENEA ICT
  • In charge of  the HPC laboratory, ENEAGRID & CRESCO Clusters management and development.
2018 September 1st - Retired
2019-2025
 Collaboration Contracts with ENEA DTE-ICT and TERIN-ICT Division


ENEA, Frascati (Roma), 8/01/2025 - g.bracco