KTH in Stockholm is the largest and oldest technical university in Sweden. No less than one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education capacity at university level is provided by KTH. Education and research spans from natural sciences to all branches of engineering and includes architecture, industrial management and urban planning. There are a total of just over 14,000 first and second level students and more than 1,700 doctoral students. KTH has almost 4,600 employees
KTH Computer Science and Communication is one of the most outstanding research and teaching environments in Information Technology in Sweden with activities at KTH and partly at Stockholm University. We conduct education and research in both theoretical and applied computer science. Theoretical computer science ranges from theory building and analysis of mathematical models to algorithm construction, implementation and simulation. Applied computer science covers a wide spectrum from computer vision, robotics, machine learning, high performance computing, visualization, computational biology, neuroinformatics and neural networks, and speech and music communication. We also conduct applied research and training in media technology, human-computer interaction, interaction design and sustainable development.For more information about CSC, go to www.kth.se/csc
Assignment
KTH School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) announces a PhD position in High-Performance Computing at High Performance Computing and Visualization (HPCViz) department.
The Department of High Performance Computing and Visualization focuses on developing new concepts for improved usage of high performance computer systems, including algorithms, programming environments, tools, and the analysis and synthesis of visual data. The department also has strong links with the PDC – Center for High Performance Computing that operates national supercomputing resources, including a 305 TF Cray XE6 system named Lindgren. The department takes part in high profile EC projects in the field of High Performance Computing, including the exascale flagship project “CRESTA” and has a focus on programming models, runtime systems, and performance tools for exascale computing.
The goal of the project is to investigate efficient communication parallel libraries for scaling to millions of cores/processing elements on the road to exascale. The objective is to extend message passing (MPI 3.0) and PGAS (Fraunhofer’s GPI library) approaches towards exascale. In particular, the project deals with two main issues: development of innovative algorithms of collectives in MPI and how to push the PGAS approach, considered to be one of the approaches with the highest potential for massive scaling. How to combine message passing and PGAS programming model is a topic of this project also. The project will contribute to a new EU Project “Exascale Programming Models – EPiGRAM”.
This is a four-year time-limited position that can be extended up to a year with the inclusion of a maximum of 20% departmental duties, usually teaching. Doctoral students must be registered at KTH. The starting date is open for discussion, though ideally we would like the successful candidate to start as soon as possible.
Employment
Form of employment: Time-limited
Work time: Full time
The salary follows the directions provided by KTH
Start date: According to agreement
Number of positions: 1
Qualifications
The successful applicant is expected to hold a Master of Science in an area such as Computer Science, Engineering Physics, or Mathematics, preferably with a specialization towards parallel computing. Documented interest towards Message Passing and Partitioned Global Address Space programming models is regarded as an advantage. Excellent written and spoken English is required to publish results and present them at conferences and in journals.
Applicants must be strongly motivated for doctoral studies, possess the ability to work independently and perform critical analysis as well as possess good levels of cooperative and communicative abilities.
Application
Application deadline: August 15th, 2013
Employer’s reference: D-2013-0463
Applications should be emailed to: Camilla Johansson, e-mail: applications3@csc.kth.se. If you have any questions, contact us at: jobs@csc.kth.se. Write the reference number in the email subject. (CV, etc. should be sent as an attachment, as pdf-files.)
Application shall include the following documents in PDF format:
- Curriculum vitae
- Transcripts from university/university college
- Representative publications or technical reports: Up to 2 documents, no longer than 10 pages each. For longer documents (e.g. theses), please provide a summary (abstract) and a web link to the full text.
Please observe that all material needs to be in English, apart from the official document.
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Application Deadline : 15 August 2013
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Posted on 2013-07-13 03:56:31