Systems Engineer @ Swiss National Supercomputer Center

Manuel Sopena Ballesteros

Systems Engineer @ Swiss National Supercomputer Center

Manuel Sopena Ballesteros is a systems engineer with over 10 years of experience in the IT field working for different organizations both private and public. Currently working for the Swiss National Supercomputer Center developing its new HPC infrastructure called Alps

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Systems Engineer @ Swiss National Supercomputer Center

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Building Manta: A Beginner’s Rust Journey Into Unifying HPC Infrastructure

November 04 2025 - 14:30 (45 min )

When I first started learning Rust, I didn’t plan to build a tool that would sit at the center of a national HPC infrastructure. I just wanted to explore a new language. Fast forward to today, and that curiosity has grown into Manta—a system application designed to unify and simplify access to CSCS’s Alps infrastructure, which spans multiple geographically distributed HPE Cray EX machines.

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Building Manta: A Beginner’s Rust Journey Into Unifying HPC Infrastructure

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