KTH Royal Institute of Technology, KTH Computer Science and Communication
KTH Royal Institute of Technology 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 12,400 full year students at first and second levels, almost 1,900 active (at least 50 per cent) research students and 5,100 employees.
For information about KTH Computer Science and Communication, go to https://www.kth.se/en/csc.
Department information
The position is placed at the department for High Performance Computing and Visualization (HPCViz).
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 the currently largest supercomputer in the Nordics, Beskow, a 2 PFLOPS Cray XC-40 system with over 53,000 cores. The department takes part in high profile EC projects in the field of High Performance Computing, is coordinating the “EPiGRAM” project, and has a focus on programming models, runtime systems, and performance tools for exascale computing.
For more information go to https://www.kth.se/en/csc/forskning/hpcviz.
Job description
In the recent FET-HPC call under Horizon 2020 a number of exascale computing projects were funded and the successful candidate is expected to join a team of researchers working on practical aspects of programming models for exascale, particularly programming model interoperability and application of programming models to scientific applications.
Qualifications
Candidates need to have a PhD in computer science, computational science, or related fields and proven experiences in working with parallel programming environments (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenACC, etc.), both from a design/implementation as well as usage in scientific applications point of view.
Trade union representatives
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Application
Log into KTH’s recruitment system in order to apply to this position. You are the main responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the ad. Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application.
Applications shall include the following documents:
1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum vitae
3. Transcripts from University/University College
4. References
Please observe that all material needs to be in English.
Other information
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Type of employment: Temporary position longer than 6 months
Working hours: Full time
First day of employment: According to agreement
Salary: According to agreement
Number of positions: 1
Working hours: 100%
City: Stockholm
County: Stockholms län
Country: Sweden
Reference number: D-2015-0320
Contact:
Maria Widlund, HR-Manager, mwidlund<στο>csc.kth.se, +46 (0) 8 790 9754
Erwin Laure, Director, erwinl<στο>pdc.kth.se, +46 (0) 8 790 6914
Published: 27.Apr.2015
Last application date: 18.May.2015