Reda Tafirout, Simon Fraser University

Research

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Latest funding

ATLAS Tier-1 Centre and Distributed Computing at the LHC Energy Frontier
CFI · 2025 · Co-investigator
$5,376,964
ATLAS Tier-1 Data Centre
CFI · 2020 · Co-investigator
$2,169,811

All 2 grants and awards

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ATLAS Tier-1 Centre and Distributed Computing at the LHC Energy Frontier

Co-investigatorCFI2025Innovation Fund: Innovation Fund 2025 Stream 1 (open)

Principal investigators: Bernd Stelzer, Reda Tafirout

Keywords: particle physics, high energy physics, LHC, Higgs boson, advanced research computing, grid computing, high performance computing, data storage, detectors Distributed computing, CPUs, disk & tape storage, databases, software framework

$5,376,964

ATLAS Tier-1 Data Centre

Co-investigatorCFI2020Innovation Fund: Innovation Fund 2020

Principal investigators: Bernd Stelzer, Reda Tafirout

Keywords: Higgs boson, Standard Model, supersymmetry, advanced research computing, experimental particle physics, high energy proton-proton collisions Distributed computing, CPU, disk storage, tape storage, databases, accelerators

$2,169,811

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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