Multiple Research Positions: HPC at the University of Basel, Switzerland

The Math&CS Department at the University of Basel is seeking  
applications for one Ph.D. (3 years) and two postdoctoral positions (3  
years) to conduct research within the Swiss HP2C Petascale Computing  
Initiative.

These positions are part of an ongoing effort at U Basel to develop  
scalable parallel inversion methods with application in computational  
wave propagation for 3D inhomogeneous media.

Research issues include scalable parallel methods for large-scale  
nonlinear optimization, discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods,  
algorithmic re-engineering of large-scale Earth Science models  
involving solving partial differential equations, and emerging  
multi-core/multi-threaded HPC technologies especially GPU devices.

For all positions we expect experience and strong interest in  
programming and high-performance computing. We are particularly  
interested in researcher from the area of computational science with  
interests in optimizing computational algorithms and their  
implementation (scaling, load balancing, etc.) on petascale  
architectures including programming paradigms and languages (e.g.  
PGAS, CUDA, OpenCL language directives and extensions, etc.)

The projects are funded by the highly collaborative High Productivity  
High Performance Computing (HP2C) initiative and the positions will be  
open starting March 1, 2010, or later. Details about HP2C are  
available at www.hp2c.ch.

Successful candidates will also have opportunities to work on leading  
edge software and hardware technologies and to collaborate with  
internationally renowned scientific research groups and supercomputing  
centers as well as with HPC vendors.

The research positions have the following requirements:
- Demonstrated experience and expertise in at least two of the areas of focus.
- Substantial code development experience in C/C++. Experience with
   GPU programming using CUDA is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience with numerical methods, e.g., finite elements,
   inverse problems, scalable solvers, or nonlinear optimization.
- Working knowledge of parallel programming languages and systems.
- Knowledge of German is not a pre-requisite.

The postdoctoral research positions have additionally the following  
requirements:
- At least four years of experience in HPC.
- A doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics, or Computer Science with a
   background in scientific computing and parallel computation.

Applications are accepted until positions are filled. Please send a  
complete application with CV, a statement of research interests (one  
page), names of two references with e-mail addresses in PDF format to:  
Olaf Schenk (e-mail: [email protected])

Interested applicants can get further information about these  
positions by contacting either Marcus Grote (Math U Basel) or Olaf  
Schenk/Helmar Burkart (CS U Basel), Email: [marcus.grote, olaf.schenk,  
helmar.burkhart]@unibas.ch]

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