Jill Kowalchuk

Jill Kowalchuk has been appointed interim executive director of Compute Canada, an organization overseeing a network of high-performance computing platforms across Canada. Kowalchuk will be seconded as of April 1st from her role as executive director of WestGrid and VP project and partnership development at Cybera. Kowalchuk replaces Susan Baldwin who was appointed as Compute Canada's inaugural executive director in 2008. Compute Canada and Cybera recently won a contract to provide research computing and data storage services for an industry test bed developed by CANARIE (R$, March 17/11)....