Invited Speaker

IEEE Grid Invited Speaker: Mike Vetterli

Michel Vetterli is a professor of physics at Simon Fraser University where he
holds a joint appointment with TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for
Particle and Nuclear Physics. Vetterli’s research is currently centered
on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, which will study the fundamental
building blocks of Nature and their interactions. ATLAS will collect
more than 3.5 Petabytes of data per year, which will be stored and
analyzed on the WorldWide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), an international
network of high-performance computing (HPC) centres. Vetterli is the
computing coordinator for ATLAS-Canada, the project leader of the ATLAS
Tier-1 Data Analysis Centre at TRIUMF, and is the current chair of the
WLCG Collaboration Board. He is also a founding principal investigator
of WestGrid, a consortium of HPC resources in western Canada serving
the needs of academic computing in the sciences and engineering, and he
serves on the Compute-Canada National Initiatives Committee.