RADIX LABORATORY
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE DIVISION
POST-DOCTORAL POSITION
Argonne National Laboratory invites outstanding candidates to apply for a postdoctoral research position in the Radix Laboratory (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/radix) in the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division. This position focuses on storage and file systems, particularly highly parallel I/O systems for computational science applications.
Computer scientists in the Radix Laboratory design, implement, and study scalable system software for petascale systems. Research is hands-on; Argonne has a 2,048-processor Blue Gene/L supercomputer and plans to install a 100-teraflops Blue Gene/P system in 2007. The machine will be part of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, and plans are to scale it up during 2008 to be one of the largest computers in the world.
The Radix I/O team is an active participant in the SciDAC Scientific Data Management Center (http://sdmcenter.lbl.gov) and in the Institute for Ultra-Scale Visualization (http://www.iusv.org). It also leads development of the PVFS parallel file system and the ROMIO MPI-IO implementation and actively participates in the development of Parallel netCDF. Other projects in the Radix Laboratory include MPICH2, an implementation of the Message Passing Interface; ZeptoOS, a lightweight Linux kernel for supercomputers; FTB, a fault-tolerant backplane for large systems; and Cobalt, a component-based job scheduler and resource manager.
The successful candidate will work with the Radix I/O team on both basic and applied research topics, with the goal of enabling parallel I/O for petascale compute architectures and beyond. This position involves interacting with users to understand problems, collaborating with other scientists at universities and laboratories, and presenting papers at workshops and conferences.
The MCS Division has a vigorous research program in applied mathematics and computer science. In addition to Blue Gene access, the computational environment includes several other large Linux clusters, a distributed systems laboratory, and a virtual environments laboratory. For more information, see http://www.mcs.anl.gov.
Argonne is located in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago, offering the advantages of affordable housing, good schools, and easy access to the cultural attractions of the city.
QUALIFICATIONS
Applicants must have recently received a Ph.D. in computer science or a related discipline and should have expertise in system software for supercomputers. Considerable knowledge is required in one or more of the following areas: parallel file systems, storage organization, operating systems and the Linux kernel, fault detection or fault tolerance, and parallel programming. Candidates should be able to create, maintain, and support high-quality software. Also desired are good collaborative skills, including the ability to work well with other laboratories and universities. The appointment is for a one-year term (renewable).
Via the Argonne website at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/about/jobs.php#petascale_postdoc,
referring to Job# mcs-311121, candidates should submit a curriculum vitae; research proposal; list of publications, abstracts, and significant presentations; and the names of three references, other than Argonne staff, who can attest to the candidate’s ability and potential.
CONTACT INFO
For further information about the Argonne division postdoctoral appointments, see the website.
For answers to questions, please contact Giselle Sandi, in Argonne’s Division of Educational Programs at gsandi@anl.gov.
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