Scientific Programmer at PDC - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Department information

The PDC – Center for High Performance Computing is the leading Swedish supercomputing center hosted by KTH. It operates state-of-the-art computational and storage resources for a variety of scientific application domains, including mechanics, computational chemistry, life sciences, climatology, and physics. Amongst these systems is the currently largest supercomputer in the Nordics, Beskow, a 2.5 PF Cray XC-40 system with over 67,000 cores.

PDC has a long history working with academic codes, including particularly the Molecular Dynamics simulation code GROMACS. Together with leading researchers in this field PDC is active in international and national projects aiming at improving the performance and scalability of these codes towards the Exascale.

For more information go to https://www.pdc.kth.se/.

Job description

A large number of scientific applications use particle interactions (e.g. Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo and multiscale simulations in life sciences or materials). However, as computers have become more specialized, many codes have not been accelerated e.g. for GPUs and it is increasingly hard to maintain parallelization efforts.

The goal of the project is to develop a library of cutting-edge performance nonbonded interactions as well as a parallelization framework, based on GROMACS, that can be used by other particle applications. This includes abstracting suitable parts from GROMACS into a library and improve the performance and scalability of this library on cutting edge exascale hardware (including accelerators).
The project is part of the EU-funded PRACE project and will be executed in collaboration with the KTH-based core GROMACS team and partners from CSCS, the Swiss national supercomputing center.

The starting date is open for discussion, though ideally we would like the successful candidate to start as soon as possible.

Qualifications

Candidates need to have a higher academic education (preferably PhD) in computer science, computational science, or in a science area using molecular dynamics simulations.

Proven experiences in developing and working with large scientific codes on large HPC systems. Experiences with molecular dynamics codes are a plus. Excellent knowledge of parallel computing (MPI, OpenMP, GPU, etc.) as well as C++11/14 is required. Experiences in developing APIs (preferably in C, C++, or python) good knowledge of python is an asset. Good knowledge of Linux is required.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal competence and suitability.

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1. Curriculum vitae
2. Transcripts from university/university college
3. Brief description of why the applicant is interested in the position.

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