Contrato - Desarrollador SW JAVA & OSGI

CeDint/ UPM

Madrid, España

Descripción

Se incorporara como leader de un equipo de desarrollo SW para trabajar en la evolución de una solución de gestión E2E en el área de Eficiencia Energética, sobre redes de sensores/actuadores IoT (Internet of Things ) y otras tecnologías, para automatización de edificios/ hogares y otros campos en las áreas de investigación I+D del centro.

Liderará el desarrollo SW de la plataforma y de los servicios basados en Java y  el framework de OSGi,  de aplicaciones web en servidor que se definan y la evolución de un SDK para la integración de aplicaciones de terceros.

Contrato - Ayudante de investigación en lógica Fuzzy y algoritmos evolutivos

European Centre for Soft Computing

España

Fecha límite: 15 de Marzo de 2014

Descripción

Vacante de ayudante de investigación disponible en la Unidad de Aplicaciones de la Lógica Fuzzy y Algoritmos Evolutivos. El European Centre for Soft Computing solicita un ingeniero de I+D para desarrollo de herramienta de simulación en la que se utilice esbasada en modelado con agentes.

La unidad de Aplicaciones de Lógica Difusa y Algoritmos Evolutivos ofrece la oportunidad de trabajar en una nueva línea de investigación que requiere la implementación de una herramienta de simulación basada en modelos de agentes. Se requerirá al candidato que tenga conocimientos de estadística, big data, análisis de redes sociales y/o economía y marketing.

Fellowship - Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Computer Applications

Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

Spain

Closing Date: Saturday, 15 March, 2014

Description

INTERNATIONAL PHD PROGRAM FELLOWSHIPS BSC_LA CAIXA

Since 1982, the “la Caixa” Foundation has offered several fellowship programmes aimed at allowing students to undertake postgraduate studies in Spain and abroad. Over the years, thousands of students have advanced their training thanks to “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship. In 2008, the “la Caixa” Foundation launched a new programme addressed to national and international students. As part of this programme, each year fellowships are awarded to students who wish to complete work toward their doctoral degrees.

BSC-CNS is at the service of the international scientific community and industry that require High Performance Computing resources. The multidisciplinary research team and the computational facilities –including MareNostrum – make BSC-CNS an international center of excellence in e-Science.

Under a collaborative Framework Agreement, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the “la Caixa” Foundation continue the fellowship programme started last year with a 2nd call. This programme aims to help the recruitment of talented students from across the world by doing their doctoral thesis work in one of the accredited “Severo Ochoa” centres of excellence. The objective of this joint activity is to boost the research capacity of the best research institutions in Spain. For this year, the “la Caixa” Foundation has selected the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) to offer four grants more for the academic year 2014-2015 addressed to PhD students. This grant is renewable up to four years.

BSC-CNS is looking for young scientists from the national and international community who wish to do their PhD in a stimulating environment, rich in technological resources and campus life. We encourage applications from highly motivated engineers and computer scientists with outstanding qualifications. Successful candidates will join research groups with top-level scientists and will carry out their research in cutting-edge areas of Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Computer Applications in Sciences and Engineering.

Contrato - Procesado de imágenes

Instituto de Optica (CSIC)

Madrid, España

Descripción

El departamento de Imágenes, Visión e Instrumentación del Instituto de Optica (CSIC), busca candidato/a para cubrir un contrato de investigación. El contrato  será por 1 año, con un salario anual de 26.733,28 euros. El trabajo de investigación se enmarca dentro de un Proyecto del Plan Nacional de I+D y se centrará en el desarrollo de técnicas de procesado de imágenes en 3D.

Requisitos: Ingenieros Superiores de Telecomunicación.

Imprescindible:  Experiencia en técnicas de procesado de imágenes y programación en C/C++/Matlab/CUDA.

PhD - Fellowships BSC - La Caixa

Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

Barcelona, Spain

Deadline for applications: Thursday 28th February, 2014

Description

Since 1982, the “la Caixa” Foundation has offered several fellowship programmes aimed at allowing students to undertake postgraduate studies in Spain and abroad. Over the years, thousands of students have advanced their training thanks to “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship. In 2008, the “la Caixa” Foundation launched a new programme addressed to national and international students. As part of this programme, each year fellowships are awarded to students who wish to complete work toward their doctoral degrees. 

Under a collaborative Framework Agreement, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the “la Caixa” Foundation continue the fellowship programme started last year with a 2nd call. This programme aims to help the recruitment of talented students from across the world by doing their doctoral thesis work in one of the accredited “Severo Ochoa” centres of excellence. The objective of this joint activity is to boost the research capacity of the best research institutions in Spain. For this year, the “la Caixa” Foundation has selected the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) to offer four grants more for the academic year 2014-2015 addressed to PhD students. This grant is renewable up to four years. 

BSC-CNS is looking for young scientists from the national and international community who wish to do their PhD in a stimulating environment, rich in technological resources and campus life. We encourage applications from highly motivated engineers and computer scientists with outstanding qualifications. Successful candidates will join research groups with top-level scientists and will carry out their research in cutting-edge areas of Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Computer Applications in Sciences and Engineering. 

Contrato - Técnico informático

FUNDACIÓN SEVERO OCHOA

Madrid, España

Fecha límite: 10/01/2014

Descripción y requisitos

Técnico en Informática.

Se requiere:

•       Titulación de Formación Profesional, especialidad en informática.

•       Conocimientos de PHP, Java y CSS.

•       Conocimiento del entorno web Joomla en sistemas LAMP.

Se valorará:

•       Experiencia en trabajos de soporte a microinformática.

•       Experiencia en tareas de informática en el Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa o centros de investigación similares.

•       Experiencia en gestión de webs Apache y entornos Joomla o Drupal.

•     Cursos en “Programación Shell Scripts” y “Seguridad en servicios web Apache para Linux”.

Se ofrece:

•       Contrato de 1 año, jornada completa, en horario de mañana (entre 8 y 15,30 horas), con posibilidad de transformación en indefinido.

•       Retribución anual de 17.300 €.

•       Incorporación inmediata.

Contrato - Gestor de proyectos / Project Manager

Institute IMDEA Networks

Madrid, España

Fecha límite: 08/01/2014

Descripción

La Fundación IMDEA Networks, perteneciente a la red de Institutos IMDEA, promovidos por la Comunidad de Madrid con objeto de desarrollar investigación de excelencia científica internacional, busca un Gestor de Proyectos /Project Manager cuya misión fundamental consistirá en dar soporte al Departamento de Projects and Funding mediante la gestión de proyectos de I+D y becas de investigación nacionales y europeos.

La persona contratada realizará las siguientes funciones:

 - Colaborará en tareas de gestión de proyectos de I+D financiados a nivel nacional y europeo.

 - Participará en la elaboración y trámite de propuestas de proyectos  de  I+D y becas para el personal investigador.

 - Colaborará en la elaboración de  informes justificativos de proyectos y becas financiados a nivel nacional o europeo.

 - Realizará otras tareas administrativas de apoyo al departamento de Projects & Funding en particular y a la oficina en general.

PostDoc - Position on weak lensing and euclid

CEA Saclay

France

Closing Date: 31st January 2014

Description

Location: CEA Saclay, France.

Position Status: Open.

Dead line for application: Jan 31, 2014.

Web page: http://www.cosmostat.org/job.html

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position on Weak lensing and Euclid for a period of 2 years.

Requirements

The candidate should have a strong interest in cosmology or/and in image processing and statistical techniques.

Minimum qualifications include an undergraduate degree or higher in astronomy, physics, computer science, statistics, or related field.

More information and applications

Senior software developer

Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

Barcelona, Spain

CLOSING DATE: Thursday, 16 January, 2014

Description

AREA: Life Sciences.

The Life Sciences Department is offering a Senior Software Developer position in the "Electronic and Atomic Protein Modelling" group, within the framework of the European project: "Protein Energy Landscape Exploration. The candidate will join a very active scientific research team in a strong international environment.

The Senior Software Developer role will be leading the development and maintenance of Pele++, an object oriented protein energy landscape exploration simulator written in C++ and all its developing environment in different hardware platforms (Mare Nostrum, Linux Cluster, etc.).

Responsibilities:

- Deliver high quality and well-structured code.

- Design, architect and implement new Pele features.

- Take an active part in new Pele features creation and specification.

- Maintain and optimize new and existing Pele features.

- Act as a mentor for the rest of the software development team.

Requirements

- Degree in Computer Science.

- Deep Knowledge of C++ (at least 3 years of recent C + + professional experience).

- Strong object oriented analysis and design skills.

- Strong refactoring, unit testing and integration testing skills.

- Knowledge about Continuous Integration.

- Excellent teamwork skills and willingness to share knowledge.

- High level of English.

Skills will be appreciated:

- Previous experience in biophysical simulations.

- HPC simulations experience (CUDA, MPI, OpenMP).

- Agile methodologies.

More information and applications

PhD - Sow BGAS

Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

Barcelona, Spain

CLOSING DATE: Thursday, 16 January, 2014

Description

AREA: Computer Sciences

Autonomic Systems and e-Business Platforms

The project aims to explore the use of high performance in-memory databases. Active Storage could dramatically change the way that Supercomputing, BioInformatics research centers and Cloud Providers manage data in the BioInformatics domain, eliminating the bottleneck created by the use flat files to store data and making data pipelining easier; and in the Data Analytics domain, introducing scalable active data repositories accessible locally or remotely. In both cases, new algorithms and approaches to largescale

data management problems will be studied and proposed based on the large all-to-all bandwidth (and corresponding bandwidth to local solid-state storage) available in existing prototypes combined with a very large in-memory storage capacity.

For the BioInformatics domain the project will explore genomics workflows to be run using distributed databases. For the Data Analytics domain the project will explore Deep-Learning techniques.

We are opening 1 PhD Student Position. Candidates must be interested in starting a research career and pursuing a PhD degree in the scope of an international team. During the project, the student will yearly spend 3 months in the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown, NY.

More info: www.bsc.es/autonomic

Main Responsibilities

• Support to the development of the project
• Identify suitable workloads for use on BGAS platform
• Study the opportunities to perform data-prefetching and data-driven workflow orchestration on the selected workloads
• Test the functional correctness of the workflows ported on a BGAS prototype
• Test the scalability of the workflows ported on a BGAS prototype

Requirements

• Excellent computing skills in high level computer languages (especially Java and C++ and Web Technologies) and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments and scripting languages.
• Strong Knowledge of Network Protocols and High Performance Networks (Infiniband, RDMA).
• Strong Knowledge of Memcached or similar Key/Value stores.
• Strong Knowledge of BioInformatics and/or Data Analytics domains.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
• Fluency in English essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Having a M.Sc Degree in Computer Sciences, Telecommunications or related discipline.
• Capacity to interact and build strong relations with a diverse members/stakeholder/staff base.
• Willing to travel (mandatory).

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Contract/postdoc - OmpSs application support & developer.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, Spain

CLOSING DATE: Saturday, 1 March, 2014

Description

OmpSs_SupDev.

POSITION: OmpSs Application Support & Developer.

AREA: Computer Sciences.

The Parallel Programming Models group from the Computer Science Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is offering a position for supporting the development of the Mont-Blanc applications.

The main responsibility of this position is to work on the Mont-Blanc project, interacting with partners, and participating in the porting of the partners applications to the OmpSs programming model on Intel and for the Mont-Blanc target architecture based on the Samsung Exynos chip.

Main Responsibilities:

- Interact with end-users from the Mont-Blanc project, and give them support for porting their applications to OmpSs.

- Interact with the OmpSs team at BSC, reporting problems, and keep track of them.

- Validate, analyze and evaluate Mont-Blanc applications.

Requirements

The position requires a strong knowledge of the Fortran, C++ and C languages. We will value previous experience in the development of applications and of parallel programming in general. Knowledge of OmpSs, OpenMP, OpenCL, CUDA, Pthreads or other parallel languages, and Linux will be valued.

Skill Specifications:

- Excellent knowledge of Fortran, C++ and C

- Excellent knowledge of OpenCL or CUDA

- Ability to work independently, and in the context of the team.

- Ability to take initiative, and prioritize the work.

- Fluency in English is essential.

The following skills will also be evaluated:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications and Experience:

- A Master´s degree or PhD in Computer Science/Computer Engineering.

All applicants should submit:

- Cover letter (please, indicate salary expectations).

- Curriculum vitae.

More information and applications

Fellowship - Development of translation layer to workflow TAVERNA to COMPSS applications

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, Spain

CLOSING DATE: Thursday, 16 January, 2014

Description

BecatransPLANT.

POSITION: Development of translation layer to workflow TAVERNA to COMPSS applications.

AREA: 

Computer Sciences

The Computer Science department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center offers a research part- time grant to develop the following responsibilities:

• Design and development of a layer which allows to translate workflows TAVERN to COMPSS applications (see http://www.taverna.org.uk and compss.bsc.es for more information ).
• Development of workflows that check the new functionality.
• These activities were carried out in the framework of the European project Transplant.

Requirements

• Students at last year of Computer Engineering.

Be valued :

• Previous experience in distributed systems.
• Knowledge of programming in C , Java and Python.
• High level of English.

All candidatures must include:

- Curriculum vitae and academic record.

- Cover Letter.

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Fellowship - Design and development planning communication layer for COMPSS programming model

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, Spain

CLOSING DATE: Thursday, 16 January, 2014

Description

BecaASCETIC

POSITION: 

Design and development planning communication layer for COMPSS programming model

AREA: 

Computer Sciences

The Computer Science department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center offers a research part-time grant for clusters and Grid computing group to perform the following responsibilities:

• Design and development of the communication layer COMPSS to improve their performance. See for more information compss.bsc.es COMPSS.
• At present, the communication layer depends on an external library which partially limits the performance COMPSS (GAT).
• Application Development test to evaluate the performance of the new version.
• These activities were carried out in the vicinity of the European project Ascetic.

Requirements

• Students at last year of Computer Engineering.

Be valued: 

• Previous experience in distributed systems.
• Knowledge of programming in C, Java and Python.
• High level of English.

All candidatures must include: 

- Curriculum vitae and academic record.

- Cover Letter.

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Contract - Systems administrator

Consortium CELLS

Barcelona, Spain

Deadline date: 15/01/2014

Description

The consortium for Construction, Equipment and Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light Laboratory (CELLS) is jointly funded by the Spanish State Government through its Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Autonomous Government) through its Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació (Department of Universities, Research and Information Society).

The accelerator was commissioned in 2011 and the Beamlines started official operations in May 2012. The control systems for the beamlines use common tools and reuse most hardware and software. 

The Systems Section consists of 8 staff members. The section is part of the Computing and Controls division with its 50 staff member.

Function: Being part of the Systems Section will be co responsible for the administration (projecting, installation, maintenance and support) of the ALBA IT Systems computing equipment and networks and the related services like: application hosting, authentication, backup, desktop virtualization, network & communications, personal and industrial computing, printing, remote access, server hosting, security, storage, help desk & HPC giving support to the whole research facility and its users including the beamlines and the machine.

Responsibilities:

    - Design, set-up an operation of new servers and services

    - Windows and Linux system administration

    - Supervision of central server systems

    - System monitoring and tuning

    - User support

    - Maintenance and improvement of services

The exact field of duty depends on the needs and the experience of the candidate.

Requirements

    - University degree in Computer Science.

    - 4+ years of professional experience as System Administrator.

    - Experience in a research center is considered an advantage.

    - Knowledge and experience working with IT system services (ITIL) and project management

      (PRINCE2) will be considered an asset.

    - A good level of English both written and spoken is required.

Valued abilities and experience (all valued but not all required)

   Professional:

        - Advanced Linux & Windows Server administration.

        - Distributed configuration management ( Puppet, Chef, CFEngine,... ).

        - Cluster & HPC w/ scientific-software  (i.e. hadoop/CDH, Rocks Cluster, Apache Mesos,

          MPI, …).

        - OpenLDAP & Samba “windows” domains (samba3, samba4wins, samba4,…), inter-                  domain trust-relationships.

        - Scripting (perl, python, windows logon scripts, PowerShell,…).

        - Networking (RADIUS, DNS, DHCP, VLANs,…) - “Extreme Networks” switches                             specially valued.

        - Monitoring (nagios, icinga,…).

        - Cups print + Samba print sharing.

        - Backup and archiving – “Atempo” specially valued.

        - DB Admin (mysql, SQL Server,…).

    - Desktop administration:

        - Windows, Linux and Mac OS clients administration.

        - Citrix XenApp application and desktop publishing.

        - Virtualization (VDI) for windows (XenDesktop/Vmware View) & linux client OSs.

    - Helpdesk.

    - Security.

    - Storage systems (NAS, CIFS/NFS3-4, SAN, Distributed filesystems,…) – “BlueArc/HDS 

      HNAS” specially valued.

    - Virtualization (XenServer, Vmware, Xen, KVM, Open Nebula).

   Personal skills:

    - High level of initiative concerning computing subjects.

    - Good knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.

    - Friendly appearance and good communication skills.

    - High level of linguistic proficiency in spoken and written English. Official languages 

      level also valued.

    - Willingness to learn new things.

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Contract - Software engineer

Consortium CELLS

Barcelona, Spain

Deadline date: 26/01/2014

Description

The consortium for Construction, Equipment and Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light Laboratory (CELLS) is jointly funded by the Spanish State Government through its Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Autonomous Government) through its Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació (Department of Universities, Research and Information Society).

The accelerator was commissioned in 2011 and the Beamlines started official operations in May 2012.  The MIS (Management Information Systems) Section gives support to the company in terms of technology and data for decision making by evaluating, designing, implementing and managing systems for all divisions of CELLS, including the information management of non-scientific data for the users who perform their experiments at CELLS (User Office).

CELLS offers you a unique opportunity to participate in this adventure as part of a dynamic team with many possibilities in an great environment. Come and join us! 

The Management Information Systems section consists of 7 staff members. The section is part of the Computing and Controls division with its 44 staff member. 

Function:

* Support for all MIS (Management Information Systems) Section active services (maintenance, RFC, Helpdesk).

* Software development and management of projects for the Synchrotron.

Requirements

* Minimum 4 years in software development (Python, J2EE, Ruby, PHP…).

* Knowledge in front-end development (Javascript Frameworks, CSS,…).

* Knowledge in Web server management and configuration (Apache, JBoss, Glassfish, Plone…).

* Experience in Management Information Systems will be considered an asset.

* Knowledge in ITIL and PRINCE2 will be considered an asset.

* The working language at ALBA is English. A good level of English both written and spoken is required.

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PostDoc - Computational mechanics of composite materials

IMDEA Materials Institute

Madrid, Spain

Description

The research group of Structural Composites at IMDEA Materials Institute, led by Dr. Cláudio S. Lopes and Dr. Carlos González, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of multiscale computational analysis of composite structures. Candidates with strong background knowledge on computational damage mechanics, model development, and on numerical simulation of advanced composite materials and structures are strongly encouraged to apply. Experience in experimental mechanical testing of composites is highly valued.

The postdoctoral fellow will work in a vibrant multinational research group within the framework of a European project in the field of Aeronautics.

Requirements

- PhD degree in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering or related.

- Solid background in computational mechanics of advanced composite materials.

- Ample experience with commercial FE software tools (Abaqus/LS-Dyna/PamCrash)including user subroutines.

- Fluent English.

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Contract - Simulation engineer

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, Spain

CLOSING DATE: Sunday, 12 January, 2014

AREA: Computer Sciences

Description

The Heterogeneous Architectures group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is looking for a highly-motivated engineer to participate in the research of a new class of energy-efficient High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems based on low-power processors. This research is part of the Mont-Blanc project, one of the BSC flagship projects, which has set itself the following objective: to design a new type of computer architecture capable of setting future global HPC standards that will deliver Exascale performance while using 15 to 30 times less energy. This research is having a big media impact and important recognition in the research community:

• One Man`s Dream to Build a Supercomputer From Cellphone Chips.
• Barcelona Supercomputer ARMed For Assault on World's Fastest Machines.
• From Mobile Phones to Supercomputers.
• BSC Installs New ARM-Based Prototype.
• BSC researchers awarded SC13 Best Student Paper.

The group has invested considerable amounts of effort to develop a simulation infrastructure for multi-core systems. The simulation environment aids researchers in the evaluation of future processor designs and runtime systems. We look for a person with initiative and a problem-solving mindset to help enhance and maintain the simulation infrastructure as it grows and is being adopted by multiple groups in the center.

The successful candidate will join our research group to implement new features in the simulation infrastructure as they are required by the research tasks in our projects. This includes the following tasks:

• Implementation and validation of performance and power models such processors models, cache coherence protocols, and emerging memory models.
• Implementation and maintenance of tracers and other simulator components.
• Testing of features and overall functionality.
• Instrumentation, profiling and optimization.

The successful candidate is expected to show initiative and strong interpersonal skills to interact with the researchers in the group and other simulation infrastructure users.

Requirements

At least BSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent. BSc in Electronics, Telecommunications or equivalent is also considered for candidates with strong programming skills. MSc is preferred.

Essential Skills:

• Strong knowledge of C++.
• Strong debugging and problem solving skills.
• Strong software engineering skills including knowledge about data structures and algorithms.
• Good English communication skills.

     Desirable Skills

•  Knowledge of computer architecture.
•  Experience with computer architecture simulators.
•  Experience with template metaprogramming, STL containers and C++11 extensions.
•  Experience with Linux compilation and debugging toolchains (gcc, autotools, gdb).
•  Experience with distributed control version systems.
•  Experience with scripting languages such as shell script and Python.

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Contract - Engineer for energy efficient clusters

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, Spain

CLOSING DATE: Sunday, 12 January, 2014.

AREA: Computer Sciences.

Description

Barcelona Supercomputing Center is one of the 8 Severo Ochoa centers of excellence in Spain, as recognition of leading research centres that are internationally known organisations in their respective areas. The Heterogeneous Architectures group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is looking for a highly-motivated engineer to participate in the research of a new class of energy efficient compute platforms based on ARM processors for high-performance computing and data centers.

The Mont-Blanc project, one of the BSC flagship projects, has set itself the following objective: to design a new type of computer architecture capable of setting future global High Performance Computing (HPC) standards that will deliver Exascale performance while using 15 to 30 time less energy. In the context of the MontBlanc project we are deploying a number of prototype clusters built from developer kits featuring a wide range of ARM-based SoC processors. These prototypes serve as driving vehicles for software development and performance benchmarking for the next generation of energy-efficient high performance and data center systems.

The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team to carry out the following tasks:

• Porting of cutting-edge scientific applications in the areas of earth and life sciences to the different prototype clusters.
• Porting of the middleware of the project to these platforms.
• Performance and power consumption analysis of the applications running in the prototype clusters. This includes profiling and identification of bottlenecks and energy inefficiencies.
• Optimization of the applications for the prototype clusters. This includes the exploration of different parallelization approaches and the use of hardware accelerators such as GPUs

These tasks will be carried out in the context of the MontBlanc and Severo Ochoa projects. The successful candidate is expected to show initiative and strong interpersonal skills to interact with both hardware and software researchers and engineers in a highly interdisciplinary environment.

Requirements

At least BSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent. BSc in Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology or equivalent are also considered for candidates with strong computer skills. MSc in these areas is preferred.

Essential Skills:

• Strong knowledge of C, C++, Fortran and MPI.
• Strong debugging and problem solving skills.
• Strong software engineering skills including knowledge about data structures and algorithms.
• Strong English communication skills.

      Desirable Skills:

• Experience in parallel programming, MPI and OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL in particular.
• Experience with scripting languages such as shell, PERL, and Python.
• Experience with network file systems, virtualization and grid environments.
• Knowledge of computer architecture and experience in architecture-aware optimization.
• Experience with control version systems.

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Contract - Computer science engineer

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, Spain

CLOSING DATE: Sunday, 12 January, 2014

AREA: Computer Sciences.

Description

The Computer Sciences Department of Barcelona Supercomputing Center offers an engineer position under the ARTIN project, Applicable Research to Interconnection Networks. This project involves IBM and the University of Cantabria for research in computer networks for high performance. It is a great opportunity to work on the programming of these supercomputers.

Main Responsibilities:

• Measurement of using the interconnection network in real time.
• Traffic analysis of scientific applications and big-data in real time.
• Programming MPI`s communication libraries.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Engineering or Telecommunications.

     The following skills will be evaluated:

• Experience in communications programming libraries.
• Experience in programming parallel applications with MPI.
• Knowledge of programming in C/C ++ and Linux scripting.
• Fluent English.

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Contract - Systems Administrator

Consortium CELLS - ALBA

Barcelona, Spain

Description

The consortium for Construction, Equipment and Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light Laboratory (CELLS) is jointly funded by the Spanish State Government through its Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Autonomous Government) through its Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació (Department of Universities, Research and Information Society).

Being part of the Systems Section will be co responsible for the administration (projecting, installation, maintenance and support) of the ALBA IT Systems computing equipment and networks and the related services like: application hosting, authentication, backup, desktop virtualization, network & communications, personal and industrial computing, printing, remote access, server hosting, security, storage, help desk & HPC giving support to the whole research facility and its users including the beamlines and the machine.

Responsibilities:

    - Design, set-up an operation of new servers and services

    - Windows and Linux system administration

    - Supervision of central server systems

    - System monitoring and tuning

    - User support

    - Maintenance and improvement of services

The exact field of duty depends on the needs and the experience of the candidate.

Requirements

Degree: 

    - University degree in Computer Science.

    - 4+ years of professional experience as System Administrator.

    - Experience in a research center is considered an advantage.

    - Knowledge and experience working with IT system services (ITIL) and project management

      (PRINCE2) will be considered an asset.

    - A good level of English both written and spoken is required.

Valued abilities and experience (all valued but not all required):

   Professional:

    - Advanced Linux & Windows Server administration.

    - Distributed configuration management ( Puppet, Chef, CFEngine,... ).

    - Cluster & HPC w/ scientific-software  (i.e. hadoop/CDH, Rocks Cluster, Apache Mesos, 

       MPI, …).

    - OpenLDAP & Samba “windows” domains (samba3, samba4wins, samba4,…), inter- 

       domain trust-relationships.

    - Scripting (perl, python, windows logon scripts, PowerShell,…).

    - Networking (RADIUS, DNS, DHCP, VLANs,…) - “Extreme Networks” switches specially   

       valued

    - Monitoring (nagios, icinga,…).

    - Cups print + Samba print sharing.

    - Backup and archiving – “Atempo” specially valued.

    - DB Admin (mysql, SQL Server,…).

    - Desktop administration:

•     Windows, Linux and Mac OS clients administration.
•     Citrix XenApp application and desktop publishing.
•     Virtualization (VDI) for windows (XenDesktop/Vmware View) & linux client OSs.
•     Helpdesk.
•     Security.
•  Storage systems (NAS, CIFS/NFS3-4, SAN, Distributed filesystems,…) – “BlueArc/HDS      HNAS” specially valued.
•     Virtualization (XenServer, Vmware, Xen, KVM, Open Nebula).

   Personal skills:

    - High level of initiative concerning computing subjects

    - Good knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems

    - Friendly appearance and good communication skills

    - High level of linguistic proficiency in spoken and written English. Official languages 

      level also valued.

    - Willingness to learn new things

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