Andrew Vaillancourt

Andrew Vaillancourt

Software Developer living in Ottawa, Canada

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About Me

I am currently working on the Cloud Platform team at Wind River Systems. My CS related interests are centered around distributed computing, including parallel programming, high performance computing, and cloud/systems architecture. Other hobbies include writing and performing music (come check out a gig!), restoring vintage audio equipment, and backcountry travel by canoe in our remote lakes and rivers. My dream is to support a happy and healthy family while doing what I love; learning and playing with new technologies. I also enjoy posting the occasional tech tutorial on my YouTube channel.

Latest Projects

Create Your Own Blog

Create your own blog with Jekyll, Docker, and GitHub Pages video tutorial.

Jekyll Blog
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If you're not a Ruby developer, it can be a little annoying configuring a local environment just to do some Jekyll development for a static site or blog. Solution: use Docker. Get a Jekyll site up and running on GitHub pages in under 10 mins.

RESTful Pi

A RESTful API to control the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi.

RESTful Pi
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I wrote a prelinimary step-by-step guide to setting up your Pi for this project which can be found on my blog as well as a YouTube tutorial playlist covering this project in its entirety.

Exploiting Task Parallelism with OpenMP on Shared Memory Systems

High performance computing in C with OpenMP.

Exploiting Task Parallelism with OpenMP on Shared Memory Systems
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This project examines the performance, scalability, and expressiveness of two OpenMP parallelism models through the implementation of the well-understood divide-and-conquer sorting algorithms Mergesort and Quicksort. You can read my paper here or check out the code on Github.

Traffic Simulation in SUMO

A blog documenting a traffic simulation project of mine using SUMO

Traffic Simulation with SUMO

I recently worked on some traffic simulation in SUMO (Simulation of Urban MObility)

Swift Cluster

Building a Beowulf Cluster

Check out my blog documenting my building of a 5 node cluster for high performance computing and as a platform for implementing my own private OpenStack Swift cloud storage cluster.

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SUMO with TraCI YouTube Tutorial

A tutorial I made demonstrating how to make dynamic changes to a running SUMO simulation using TraCI.

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Terrain Shader

Procedural Terrain Generation

My first foray into graphics with OpenGL and shaders

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Space Dude

Space Dude

This is a 2D spaceshooter game written in Ruby using Gosu. I wrote it last year over a weekend or two to learn the basics of game development. Cool little library for learning how to code games without getting bogged down in the features of a full game engine like Unity3D.

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Other Projects

GitHub Insights Retriever Open Source

Retrieve all of your GitHub public repository insights with one quick command from the terminal. Check it out on Github. Pull requests welcomed!

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Hybrid Programming Open Source

I am doing some performance analysis of hybrid OpenMP / MPI programming on my cluster, as well as on the university's Mercury cluster. I am focusing on less embarrassingly parallel algorithms that involve partitioning of tasks, rather than simple data partitioning.

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