About BSC
The Barcelona
Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is
the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one
of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a hosting member
of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The
mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information
technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines
HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational
science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and
currently has over 500 staff from 44 countries.
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Context and Mission of the role:
Supercomputers are indispensable tools for solving the
most challenging and complex scientific and technological problems
through simulations. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe,
PRACE, is a unique persistent pan-European Research Infrastructure for
High Performance Computing (HPC) and forms the top level of the European
HPC ecosystem. BSC is one of the core partners of PRACE providing a
tier-0 system like MareNostrum4 to the PRACE computing resources.
This position will be integrated within operations department within
the High level support team. The team will work on applications support
for the most relevant projects asking resources at PRACE
infrastructure, including the improvement of the scalability and
performance of selected European scientific applications and tools
towards Exascale, Data Analytics and Machine learning as well as code
refactoring.
Key Duties
Optimize and adapt scientific application codes to new pre-exascale architectures
- Improve
the performance of existing parallel codes, improving the serial
efficiency and the scalability, changing if necessary the code or
helping the developers with their required modifications.
- Choose
and adapt algorithms and/or mathematical library routines to improve
applications to specific computer architectures (accelerators, new
programming models, etc).
- Provide consultancy to scientists on new computer architectures and programing models.
- Generate performance analysis and benchmarks for selected applications and report the results to the applications developers.
- Collaborate
with other functional groups at European and International level on
technical matters related to supporting scientific application work.
Requirements
- Education
- PhD in computer science or in any other scientific field but directly related to HPC
- Bachelor
in Computer Science or related discipline and at least 4 years of
experience in a similar position working with HPC codes
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience
porting and optimizing applications on UNIX-based systems experience in
Fortran, C, MPI, OpenMP, and parallel methods
- Experience using performance analysis tools, and parallel debuggers
- Experience supporting and collaborating with external partners
- Good understanding of Linux environment and Shell scripting
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience in managing big and collaborative projects and experience with git and SVN
- Experience porting codes to accelerators (GPGPU)
- A thorough understanding of high performance computing architectures
- Competences
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to work within a team to complete tasks on schedule
- Analytical problem solving ability
Conditions
- The position will be located at BSC within the Operations Department
- We offer a full-time contract, a good working environment,
a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure,
flexible hours, extensive training plan, tickets restaurant, private
health insurance, fully support to the relocation procedures
- Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience
of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona - Starting date: as soon as possible
Applications Procedure
All applications must include:
- A motivation letter with a statement of interest, including two contacts for further references
- A full CV including contact details
Deadline
The
vacancy will remain open until suitable candidate has been hired.
Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be
contacted.
Diversity and Equal Opportunity EmploymentBSC-CNS
is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected
by applicable state or local law.