Team
On the menu link you can see all past and present group members.
Research Assistant
Students and postdocs
May 2019
From left to right
Olivier Gingras, co-direction PhD
Vivien Perrin, intern, now PhD in France
André-Marie Tremblay
Charles-David Hébert, PhD now programmer for Desjardins
Simon Verret, Postdoc IQ-IVADO
Nicolas Kowalski, MSc
Jaychandran Padayasi, Intern, presently PhD Ohio State University
Pierre-Olivier Downey, MSc
Chloé-Aminata Gauvin-Ndiaye, PhD
Yilda Bouchtouchen, Intern, now at University of Waterloo
Yan Wang, now researcher at Oakridge National Laboratory
A few collaborations with other teams
- Quantum Materials program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University
- Giovanni Sordi, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Syed R. Hassan, IMSC, Chennai
We have access to:
Funding agencies
- Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Canada
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Compute Canada
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Regroupement Québécois sur les matériaux de pointe
- Université de Sherbrooke
History of compute nodes
Elix2
With the support of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. Had 180 compute nodes. Started operating in April 2003.
See also Centre de calcul scientifique (CCS) Université de Sherbrooke.
Back: André-Marie Tremblay, Alain Veilleux
Front: Michel Barrette, Lorne Nelson (Bishop's)
Elix1
Elix1, was the second Beowulf (linux) cluster in Québec and the first one in Sherbrooke (1999). It had 64 Intel processors.
David Sénéchal and André-Marie Tremblay, Faculty, with the three designers, Michel Barrette, Alain Veilleux and Mehdi Bozzo-Re.