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Summary

Berkeley Lab has several openings for post-doctoral fellows in the NERSC Division to address the challenges of petascale computing on new multicore architectures. The fellows will work with high-profile applications in the areas of bioscience, fusion, climate and material science as well as in the development of scalable algorithms and novel language implementations for modern petascale systems. The fellows will have access to leading edge computational platforms as well as prototypes of experimental systems and close interaction with DOE Office of Science Principal Investigators who are receiving significant allocations of high-end computer time under the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge. Interaction with faculty and students of the University of California, Berkeley and other major research universities is available depending on the specific project. The fellows will have the opportunity to gain experience in the NERSC production environment facility and practical knowledge of the skills necessary for deployment of large-scale multi-user hardware and software.

Duties

The fellow will participate in research projects to develop, analyze, and optimize performance of HPC applications and their run-time environment. This project may involve several of the following activities: analysis and optimization of parallel application programs; benchmarking these codes on systems from single CPUs to large scale HPC systems; the development of improved algorithms for multi-core systems; research in a specific computational application domain; publication and dissemination of these research activities through refereed publications and conference presentations.

Qualifications

Required: PhD degree in computer science, computational science, applied mathematics or a related scientific/engineering application domain area is required. Excellent written and oral communication skills are required. Demonstrated ability to work independently, work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team, and contribute to an active intellectual environment. Experience with code development in a UNIX/Linux – based environment.

Desired: Experience in one or more of the following areas: (1) High-performance computing, (2) Domain science expertise relevant to biosciences, climate, fusion, or similar application fields, (3) Experience tuning and debugging large science applications, (4) Advanced HPC languages and methods (PGAS, CUDA, OpenCL, etc.).

Equal Employment Opportunity

Berkeley Lab is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the development of a diverse workforce.

Notes

All positions require the completion of a background check. This is a one-year term appointment with the possibility of renewal. The Berkeley Lab offers competitive salaries for post-doctoral positions with excellent benefits.

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The Scientific Computing Group has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral fellow to work on the development of algorithms and their application to large-scale computational science problems that are relevant to DOE and LBNL. The research activities will include the development of computational algorithms on high performance computers for scientific applications, such as the analysis of the electric power grid and materials simulations for carbon capture. The current focus of the computational algorithms is on optimization and discrete and combinatorial methods.

Qualifications

Required -Ph.D. in Computational or Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Computational Science within the last 3 years is required, with a strong background in computational mathematics. Some knowledge of optimization, discrete mathematics and physics or chemistry is desirable. The successful candidate should be able to program in C++ and Fortran, and should have experience in parallel computing and MPI. Excellent communication skills are essential.

Notes

This is two-year (term) full time appointment, with the possibility of renewal and with the possibility of conversion to career based upon satisfactory job performance, continuing availability of funds, and ongoing operational needs.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Berkeley Lab is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to the development of a diverse workforce.

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The Future Technology Group is looking for a Mathematical Analyst to work on the development of algorithms and their application to large- scale computational science problems that are relevant to DOE and LBNL.

Specifically you will:

Research the development of computational algorithms on high performance computers for scientific applications, such as cyber security. The current focus of the computational algorithms is on statistics, discrete combinatorial methods, and graph algorithms.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B.S. in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Computational Science within the last 3 years is required with a strong background in computational mathematics.
• Some knowledge of statistics, discrete algorithms and cyber security is desired.
• Be able to program in C++ and Fortran, and should have some experience in parallel computing and MPI.
• Familiarity with MATLAB is also desired.
• Excellent communication skills are essential.

Notes

This is two-year (term) full time appointment, with the possibility of renewal and with the possibility of conversion to career based upon satisfactory job performance, continuing availability of funds, and ongoing operational needs. This position can be filled as a Computer Systems Engineer 1 or Computer Systems Engineer 2 depending on qualifications and experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Berkeley Lab is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to the development of a diverse workforce.

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The High Performance Computing Service Group is looking for a Linux cluster engineer to join their team and provide cluster support to the Berkeley Lab and UC Research community. The successful candidate will participate in designing, building, and integrating Linux HPC clusters to meet the computing needs for research projects. In addition, they will provide ongoing systems administration support for Linux systems and clusters and will provide user applications support for scientific researchers.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's in computer science or related field or equivalent experience and a minimum of 4 years of full time Linux system administration experience in a large distributed computing environment including 2 years experience in architecting and providing support for Linux HPC cluster used for scientific research.
• Solid knowledge of Linux and UNIX operating systems concepts and must have extensive systems administration experience.
• Must have experience and knowledge to support parallel or distributed computing architectures used for scientific computing.
• Must have firm understanding of LINUX and internals and be proficient with building, patching, and modifying Linux RPMs.
• Software development experience and related skills are essential in order to provide expert user assistance with their applications or user environment.
• Must be able to demonstrate programming proficiency in a procedural language.

Computer Systems Engineer 3

• In addition to the Qualifications required for CSE 2, the CSE 3 must have a minimum of 8 years related experience-including building and supporting large scale systems.
• Ability to do high level project planning activities (scope, goals, timeline, budget).
• Ability to successfully plan, organize and lead small projects.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Berkeley Lab is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to the development of a diverse workforce.

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The High Performance Computing Services group is looking for a HPC Scientific User Services Engineer to provide high performance computational resources and related support services to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California researchers. This position is responsible for problem management and consulting, helping with user code optimization, debugging and scaling, strategic user project support, documentation, training, and third-party applications and library support. Additional responsibilities include implementing and managing job resource management, scheduler, and user allocation software as well as assisting with the benchmarking, integration, and acceptance testing of new Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• This position requires the candidate to have an advanced degree in Computer Science or scientific field; a minimum of 8 years scientific computing experience, including a minimum of 2 years experience in providing user support for high performance computing Linux clusters.
• Experience in implementing and maintaining various job schedulers and scheduling algorithms to load balance user jobs on systems.
• Software development experience and related skills are essential in order to provide expert user assistance with their applications or user environment.
• Must be able to demonstrate parallel programming proficiency in a procedural language such as C or Fortran and scripting languages such as PERL or Python.
• Experience with popular compilers (e.g. GCC, Portland Group, Intel, Pathscale), parallel programming models (MPI), effective use of multi-core nodes, debugging and performance tuning techniques and tools, and scientific libraries.
• Experience doing benchmarking activities to test or accept systems.
• Ability to build, package, install, and test 3rd party commercial or public domain scientific software.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize many tasks, and complete assigned tasks and projects with minimal supervision and must have demonstrated ability to assume lead role in some activities.
• Must have ability to grasp complex problems and develop solutions, and possess in-depth background in high-performance computing.
• Excellent interpersonal, communications, presentation, and customer service skills and must have an outstanding track record of meeting customer expectations.
• Have demonstrated ability to clearly communicate ideas or technical concepts to a wide audience, both written and orally and experience developing and maintaining documentation.
• Required to work standard Lab working hours. Off-hours and weekend work will be required to support systems and users.

Desired:

• Experience implementing banking and allocation configurations for large systems.
• System administration experience, and experience implementing HPC storage subsystems (GPFS, Lustre, Panasas).
• Parallel programming for scientific applications experience.
• Programming experience with scientific software packages such as Matlab or IDL.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Berkeley Lab is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to the development of a diverse workforce.

Exceptional software developers sought to design, develop, and deploy systems software for a special-purpose supercomputer. Successful hires will join an interdisciplinary research group pursuing an ambitious, long-term project aimed at achieving major scientific advances in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology. Our Systems Software team members work on operating systems, networking software, firmware design, development tools, diagnostics, and tools/protocols/user interfaces for scalable operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning (OAM&P).

Ideal candidates will have a computer science or engineering degree, prior experience with non-trivial parallel or distributed systems software projects, deep knowledge of operating systems internals, strong C/C++/Python programming ability, and excellent verbal and written skills. Familiarity with device drivers, Linux or BSD kernels, run-time systems, communication protocols, event-driven and thread-based concurrency, bootstrap code, x86 hardware and BIOS and bringup of new hardware is a plus, but specific knowledge of any of these areas is less critical than exceptional intellectual ability and a demonstrated track record of achievement. We will consider candidates at all levels of experience and are prepared to reward exceptionally well-qualified individuals with above-market compensation.

Please send your resume to InsideHPC-SS@career.DEShawResearch.com.

D. E. Shaw Research does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

Exceptional software developers sought to write scientific code for a massively parallel special-purpose supercomputer. Successful hires will join an interdisciplinary research group pursuing an ambitious, long-term project aimed at achieving major scientific advances in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.

Ideal candidates will have outstanding low-level programming ability and excellent verbal and written communication skills. Relevant areas of expertise might include parallel programming, multicore systems, compilers, assembly language programming, or architectural simulation, but specific knowledge of any of these areas is less critical than exceptional intellectual ability and a demonstrated track record of achievement. We will consider candidates at all levels of experience and are prepared to reward exceptionally well-qualified individuals with above-market compensation. Candidates will primarily be considered for opportunities in New York and Silicon Valley.

Please send your resume to InsideHPC-asd@career.DEShawResearch.com.

D. E. Shaw Research does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

Extraordinarily gifted computer scientists, systems architects, electrical engineers, and systems software professionals are sought to join a rapidly growing New York–based research group pursuing an ambitious, long-term project aimed at achieving major scientific advances in the field of biochemistry and fundamentally transforming the process of drug discovery.

Among the group’s current research activities is a project aimed at developing a massively parallel special-purpose supercomputer and innovative mathematical and computational techniques to direct unprecedented computational power toward the solution of key scientific and technical problems in the fields of molecular simulation and molecular design. Successful candidates will be working closely with a number of the world’s leading computational chemists and biologists, and will have the opportunity to make fundamental contributions within the fields of biology, chemistry, and medicine.

Serious candidates will have an exceptionally distinguished history of academic and/or industrial accomplishment in computer science, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, or a related area. Particularly relevant areas of expertise might include parallel computation, high-speed interconnection networks, scientific computing, numerical analysis, optimization, the analysis of algorithms, operating systems, digital systems simulation, reconfigurable computing, and ASIC design, but specific knowledge of any of these areas is less critical than exceptional intellectual ability and a demonstrated track record of achievement.

Candidates will primarily be considered for opportunities in New York City and Silicon Valley. We are prepared to reward exceptionally well-qualified individuals with above-market compensation.

Please send your curriculum vitae (including list of publications, thesis topic, and advisor, if applicable) to InsideHPC-CS@career.DEShawResearch.com.

D. E. Shaw Research does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

NIWA is a leading environmental research institute and key provider of atmospheric, freshwater and marine research and consultancy services in New Zealand.

In early 2010 NIWA will install a new IBM p575/p6 HPC. This system will start at 56 nodes and is expected to increase to 108 nodes in 2011/12. The new High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) will primarily be used to support NIWA's research activities in climate, weather, sea state, ocean and sea level modelling and forecasting, and to support an operational environmental forecasting system – EcoConnect.

We are seeking a Scientific Programmer who can provide support to both NIWA and external science users of the new HPCF. This is a new position at NIWA and will provide the successful appointee with opportunities to work on a leading edge HPC in an institution that is focused on improving our understanding of the environment at temporal scales ranging from hours to decades into the future.

Applicants should have at least ten years’ of advanced Fortran (77, 90, 95, 2003) programming experience, with demonstrated skills in the development and application of advanced algorithms on parallel HPC systems, and of supporting/mentoring science end-users. Experience in the management of large Fortran and multi-language software code bases and of MPI and/or OpenMP programming methods would be advantageous.

You can read more about our new HPC Facility on our website via http://bit.ly/IDLOe.

For further information about NIWA, a full position description, and online applications, please visit www.careers.niwa.co.nz

High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) is more than a company—it is an innovative environment. The people who comprise HPTi are dedicated to architecting, designing, developing, and managing systems and programs that keep America safe and prosperous. HPTi does not build solutions; rather, we build the people who build solutions for America’s toughest challenges. We seek clients and employees who are comfortable using high-performance technology to solve challenging mission problems. As we enter our 18th year in business, HPTi is dedicated to building IT Knowledge Leaders through our client assignments, training programs, and devotion to the people who comprise this dynamic firm. HPTi has a proud legacy of technical achievement that has been possible only because of our commitment to our people and to our customers. At HPTi, our customers are first, our employees second, our stockholders third, and our community fourth. This guiding principle helps us remember the importance of our firm within the marketplace—and our people within this firm.

The selected candidate will work with NOAA scientists, outreach personnel and outside media as well as institutions to produce highly polished visualizations, often on an on-demand and highly time-constrained basis. The successful candidate will have not only the technical capabilities to analyze data to produce scientifically and visually useful products, but also the project management capabilities to effectively coordinate customers, researchers, IT resources, and outreach personnel to deliver the desired product on schedule. An example of such products can be found at GFDL’s Visualization Gallery.

This work involves creating and maintaining a set of visualization tools for use in generating high-end visualization, and assistance to users who wish use these tools. These tools will include advanced visualization techniques (lighting, texture mapping, splicing/fades, layering, etc.), post-production (editing, labeling/annotation, captioning, transcripts), and generation of materials utilizing media-ready formatting and delivery (NTSC, PAL, mov/avi/qt/mpeg/png.gif, …). Once created, these products will be managed in internal and external galleries/libraries/repositories, and assistance will be provided to users that want to integrate these products into their own presentations.

Lastly, this work involves creating educational products that elucidate various scientific concepts or themes to audiences of varying technical sophistication. These can take the form of narrated animations suitable for classroom, museum kiosk, or the web (e.g., YouTube). Examples of such products can be found at http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/e-media-produced-by-gfdl-ccvp. Experience with scene/graphic generation toolsets (e.g., Blender) and video editing packages (e.g., Final Cut) is highly desirable.

For immediate consideration please forward your resume/CV to careers@hpti.com

HPTi is an Equal Opportunity Employer/M/F/D/V.

Manager, High Performance Computing Facility

Arizona State University
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Job Id# 23183

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering and the High Performance Computing Facility are searching for a Manager of Computer Operations. This position will be responsible for architecting, implementation, development and support of ASU's HPC infrastructure and data center facilities. In this effort, the position will manage a 5,000 processor Linux computer cluster, make recommendations on hardware and software purchases; maintain excellent vendor relationships; manage daily operational activities to ensure adherence to service level agreements; drive continuous improvement and process efficiency within budget; develop and implement usage and availability policies; develop and implement disaster recovery plan; supervise and train operations staff and students. Facilitate collaboration by working closely with HPCI's research partners and provide advanced technical support.

DAYS AND SCHEDULE:

Monday-Friday 8:00AM-5:00PM; on-call 24/7

Rate of Pay:
$75,000 – 85,000/year; DOE

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields and five years of experience in large scale computer operations, which include three years in a supervisory capacity; OR, Nine years of experience in large scale computer operations which includes at least three years in a supervisory capacity; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with Linux Enterprise clustering technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux high performance computing applications.
• Demonstrated experience with data storage technologies including distributed or parallel file systems technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with Infiniband advanced networking technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with managing a data center facility.

Department Statement/Gen Info:

The Ira A. Fulton Schools High Performance Computing Initiative (HPCI) at Arizona State University offers world-class high performance computing to the school's researchers and their industrial partners. In support of its¿ challenges it is one of the first supercomputer facilities focused on the integration of undergraduate education with high performance computing to produce the next generation of engineering research leaders fluent in computational science. The HPCI now has more than 500 users on it's primary systems, and is committed to maximizing the science impact of high performance computing. Visit us at http://hpc.asu.edu/

Standard Statement:

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 67,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

Arizona State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Close Date:
October 26, 2009

Instructions to Apply:

Application deadline is 11:59pm Arizona time on the day indicated.

Complete the required information and attach a single document, which includes: a cover letter, resume, and the names, addresses and phone numbers of three professional references. Resume should include all employment in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position. Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position.

REQUESTED MATERIAL MUST BE IN ONE ATTACHMENT.

Only electronic applications are accepted for this position. If you need assistance applying for this job, please contact our customer service center at 480-965-2701.

The Fulton Schools of Engineering will reimburse appropriate and reasonable travel expenses associated with interviewing.

To apply please go to www.asu.edu/asujobs/

Outstanding candidates are invited to apply for positions as Argonne Computational Postdoctoral Fellows.

Fellows will carry out research in computational science or engineering in one of the following areas: biological science, chemistry, earth science, engineering, materials science, nuclear energy, physics, and energy science. The home research division of each fellow will be determined based on area of interest.

Fellows will develop and implement advanced computational approaches aimed at scaling applications for high-end computing systems. Using these advanced approaches, the selected fellows will conduct large-scale simulations on leadership-class computers, with the objective of producing breakthrough research in the scientific disciplines of interest.

The successful candidates will interact with both divisional researchers and staff of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) to best utilize high-performance computers. The ALCF operates a 557-teraflop IBM Blue Gene/P system for production scientific and engineering computing and a 13.9-teraflop IBM Blue Gene/P system for system software development, software testing, and tool and application porting.

Argonne is a leader in addressing the nation's critical scientific and technological problems and has vigorous research programs in the physical, life, and environmental sciences. The laboratory is located in the southwestern Chicago suburbs, offering the advantages of affordable housing, good schools, and easy access to the cultural attractions of the city.

Fellowships are awarded for a one-year term, with possible renewal for a second year. Interested candidates should apply to cpf-fellow@anl.gov. For application requirements and further information, see http://www.cels.anl.gov/about/opportunities. A multidisciplinary fellowship selection committee will review application material.

Argonne is a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC.

Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce