Economies, funding models, interest rates, licensing and service provider costs - everything’s in motion right now, and a lot of it not in our favour! How can any institution hope to offer a stable, reliable platform of services to its researchers amidst all that turmoil? How can we afford to stay at the leading edge of technologies to keep our researchers competitive?

There’s an answer, and it’s alive and in practice today at UVic!

Jeff Albert

Jeff Albert

Manager and Architect, Advanced Research Computing Infrastructure, University of Victoria

Jeff Albert leads the University of Victoria's Advanced Research Computing Infrastructure team, a top-flight team of ambitious sysadmins and far-seeing scientific computing specialists, as its Manager and Architect.

Having inhabited every almost every rung on the operations technical contributor ladder from Junior HelpDesker to Senior Sysadmin over the course of some twenty years, Jeff now orchestrates the design, deployment, and operation of major research computing infrastructure systems - most notably among them Canada's largest research cloud, Arbutus.

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