Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (jt.acquaviva@gmail.com) is leading a research group at DDN France. He obtained his Ph.D in 2000 from CEA, DAM (French Atomic Commission, Military Dept.) and University of Versailles (France). After spending 2 years at Intel Compiler group in Santa Clara, he joined the University of Versailles as a Research Engineer, and afterward joined CEA (civilian department) still as a Research Engineer. Jean-Thomas was one of the founding members of the Exascale Research Centre, a joint lab between Intel, CEA and the University of Versailles, where he took the head of the performance group. He’s now actively participating in the development of DDN’s Advanced Technology Center in France, his role includes overseeing research collaborations in Europe as well as product management for some advanced DDN’s products.