Brief personal presentation
Hi folks!
My name is Vittorio Memmo, I'm a experienced professional from Italy in a fairly wide range of Information Technology products and services.
My expertise is primarly focused on server systems built upon Linux and based on Open Source solutions, thanks not only to my researcher-style cultural background concerning high performance pure-computing environments, but also to my strong on-the-field application capabilities.
Linux has been a distinctive key point in my professional activity and Fedora was particularly useful for me, an excellent swiss-knife tool, very well made, despite the scepticism some customers had shown in favour of commercially oriented Linux and other Unix-like distributions.
Linux can run on almost any platform, powering from mythical microcomputer of the '90s to large mainframes and server farms, up to petaflops grade supercomputers with a kernel that can be deeply modified and even rewritten to suit even the most diverse requirements.
Although I'm mainly a self-taught person (yes, I've never attained certification courses and I'm proud of not to be branded a goat! - jokes aside I believe certifications give a confined view of the reality, although a good starting point), during my activity as Field Application Engineer and Pre-sales support specialist at the beginning, then as System Engineer, currently as IT Consultant and Systems Analyst, I’ve achieved many successful objectives leveraging my expertise in researching the solution to problems other persons couldn’t find.
A kind of inventor in the field of technology, an individual, as many other guys around the world, who has got the knowledge, intuition, creativity, technical know-how and passion to turn his ideas into real-life.
"Be the users to control the software not the software to control the users" in a freedom and sharing framework: this is why I've joined the Fedora Linux community.
Activities within Fedora
Attended Fedora events
- FUDCon Milan 2011 [1]
Success stories
Linux a fast-growing, powerful, reliable and inexpensive operating system has proved to be very flexible
not only as a major player in the large server farms and in the most demanding computing center around the world but also
in small and mid-sized server field in which I have worked in the early years of my job activity,
and is becoming an increasingly viable platform for workstation and desktop use as well.
Among the others I've realised:
The cluster has been realised for both batch and real time execution of custom programs developed by students and researchers in C++ and Fortran programming languages for implementing algorithms that usually require heavy duty calculations in various fields of applied Physics such as Fluid Dynamics and Digital Image processing that would require days or even weeks of execution time on normal equipped workstations.
In the meantime the department researchers can rely on a robust high-availability on-demand central calculation equipment for supporting Grid Mathematica® symbolic processor parallelization capabilities of running more calculation tasks in parallel.
Future plans
Presently I'm working on other ideas based on Fedora Linux.
Fedora is my reference Linux distribution. I'm looking forward to continue building Fedora based servers for the customers I'll work for.
Among my most recent projects:
Such projects are being studied by myself in my spare time. People that would collaborate on such field is welcome!
The scientific method, according to which a complex problem can be broken down into simpler problems, is in keeping with Linux's phylosophy of providing small tools that can be tied together or suitably combined into powerful scripts to accomplish even very complex tasks.
About the author
Vittorio Memmo was born in Lanciano, a little town located in Abruzzo region nearby the Adriatic Sea.
After having studied Physics in the university of Rome for 6 years ,
he started Exin Lab in 2000, a little personal business concerning information technology services
for small and medium enterprise customers.
In the meantime he kept on a deep research activity improving proficiency in HA and MPP clusters as well as GRID
systems for high-performance computing dedicated scientific applications.
He's dedicating many hours of his life to studying, researching, testing, inventing.
Presently he works as a Information Technology Consultant for a estimated engineering company delivering services
for governament, large and medium enterprises .
"In many fields of technology and science there are often multiple ways to accomplish a task, so you have always something to learn even if
you think to be already competent in an area".
Contact Details:
Location: Rome - Italy
Mail1: exinlab@fedoraproject.org
Mail2: vittorio.memmo@exinlab.com
