David Latino

David Latino is the lead HPC Architect and HPC Center of Competency leader for Lenovo Middle East & Africa. Prior to working for Lenovo starting in 2015, he was a Consulting IT Specialist, performing the same role for IBM Middle East, Turkey & Africa. David has 12 years of experience in the HPC field. He led a wide spectrum of consulting projects, working with HPC users in academic research and industry sectors. His work covered many aspects of the HPC arena and he was technical leader for the design and implementation of multiple large HPC systems that appeared in the top500 list. David worked extensively on HPC application development, optimization, scaling, and performance benchmark evaluation, which resulted in several highly optimized application software packages. He also spent several years based at customer sites to train system administrators, users, and developers to manage and efficiently use IBM Blue Gene systems.