Stillingstittel:
Postdoctoral fellowship in High Performance Computing (HPC) related to the EU project CloudLightning

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The Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering (http://www.ntnu.edu/ime) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has a vacancy for one postdoctoral fellow position in High Performance Computing (HPC) at the Department of Computer and Information Science (http://www.ntnu.edu/idi).

 

An appointment as postdoctoral fellow is for a term of two years of full-time research, with no teaching obligations. The position of postdoctoral fellow is a fixed-term position with the primary objective of qualifying for work in top academic posts.

 

Information about the department

 

Currently there are 22 professors and 16 associate professors at the department. In addition there are 16 adjunct associate professors, 15 postdoctoral researchers, approx. 65 active PhD students, and 18 technical/administrative staff. Five of the tenured scientific positions are held by women, and eight are from other countries than Norway. Research activities are organized into groups and strategic European and National projects as documented here http://www.ntnu.edu/idi/research.

 

Work description

 

Access to high-end High Performance Computing resources are now necessary for a range of applications. However, as these resources become more complex to manage and maintain, HPC as a cloud service becomes more attractive. Current cloud infrastructures are mostly homogenous. The Department (IDI) is part of the EU H2020 CloudLightning project which will investigate how to self-organize and self-manage heterogeneous clouds that may consist of GPUs and MICs accelerators as well as DFEs (Data flow engines).

 

The Post Doctoral Researcher's responsibility will include the following tasks related to the EU project CloudLightning:

• Help develop self-organized self-managed plugins based on the characteristic of each heterogeneous resource type (GPUs, MICs, DFEs).

• Provide infrastructure support for the above resource types. This task may include developing libraries for a range of different GPUs and other accelerators for the service implementations to link against.

• Develop stand-alone open source software implementations of use cases from oil & gas, ray tracing, genomics and matrix computations that can be used by the project.

• Integrate the above use cases with service descriptions developed in collaborations with our partners.

• Configure and refine several test beds including GPUs and other accelerators for the project.

The candidate will also work on research challenges related to the above topics.

 

The position requires strong English oral and writing skills as the candidate will be interacting with a team of international researchers, including our main partner from Ireland, and the job will include providing several progress reports in English, as well as publishing open access research articles in major conferences and/or journals such as SC, IPDPS, CC-PE, JORS, etc..

 

If the applicant's PhD is not from an English speaking country, the following tests can be used as documentation: TOEFL, IELTS and Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) or Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE). Minimum scores are:

• TOEFL: 600 (paper-based test), 92 (Internet-based test)

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  Maksimal lønn: 0
  
  Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: Sem Sælands vei 7-9 7491 TRONDHEIM
  
  Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Sør-Trøndelag
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
  Lønn valuta: NOK
  
  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  

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