Colloquium Speaker:
Mr. Paul Preney, OCT, M.Sc., B.Ed., B.Sc
High Performance Computing Technical Consultant / Research Associate
Office of Research and Innovation Services (ORIS), University of Windsor
Title: High Performance, Advanced, and Cloud Research Computing for Windsor Researchers
Bio:
Mr. Preney has M.Sc. (Computer Science); an Honours B.Sc. (Biology and Computer Science); B.Ed. (Teachables: Biology and Computer Science); and is an Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT). He is also a member of the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) Mirror Committee to SMC/JTC 1/SC 22 (Programming languages) and is a Subject Matter Expert of the SCC Mirror Cmte to SMC/JTC 1/SC 22/WG 21 (C++). He has taught courses at the secondary level and as a sessional instructor in Computer Science and Education at the University of Windsor. Mr. Preney is currently the University of Windsor on-campus SHARCNET staff person for supporting researchers and their high-performance, advanced, storage, and cloud computing needs.
Abstract:
The University of Windsor is a founding member of SHARCNET, now a consortium of many Ontario academic institutions, which provides high performance computing clusters, storage, and cloud resources and services to its researchers. SHARCNET is also part of Compute Ontario which is part of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada). Collectively these organizations work together to seamlessly provide Canadian researchers access to compute clusters, storage, and clouds to do high-performance, advanced, and cloud computing research. This presentation will introduce and explain these facilities and services, how such can be accessed and used by researchers and their students.
Day & Time: Friday, October 9, 2026, at 3:00pm
Location: Lambton Tower, Room 9-118
Counts toward seminar attendance for MSc and PhD students in Math & Stats.