Doctoral student in High-Performance Computing - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Project description

Third-cycle subject: Computer Science

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science invites applications for two doctoral student positions in High-Performance Computing (HPC), focusing on designing numerical libraries for parallel computing and parallel I/O for heterogeneous storage systems.

The first Ph.D. project aims to design and develop libraries or a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for the automatic generation of high-performance numerical routines, such as Fast Fourier Transforms, Linear Solvers, and Particle Movers, on HPC systems. Including accelerators and heterogeneous systems. The development of such libraries and DSL will be based on the Data-Centric Parallel Programming (DaCe), a framework developed at ETH. Contribution to the DaCe development framework is expected as part of the Ph.D. project. The newly developed numerical libraries / DSL will be integrated into the molecular dynamics GROMACS and the Computational Fluid Dynamics Nek5000 codes. The Ph.D. project will be carried within the DEEP-SEA project in collaboration with the ETH Zurich HPC team.

The second Ph.D. project aims to develop parallel I/O programming interfaces for scientific applications and workflow on emerging heterogeneous storage technologies, including object stores and persistent memories. The Ph.D. project includes extensions to the MPI I/O, MPI Windows, MPI Derived Datatypes, and HDF5 interfaces to support large-scale scientific applications and workflows, such as weather forecast workflows, using HPC object stores. The Ph.D. project will be carried within the Sage2 and IO-SEA projects in collaboration with the Seagate System team

Supervision: The doctoral student will be supervised by: Stefano Markidis.

What we offer

• The possibility to study in a dynamic and international research environment in collaboration with industries and prominent universities from all over the world.Read more
• A workplace with many employee benefits and monthly salary according to KTH’s Doctoral student salary agreement.
• A postgraduate education at an institution that is active and supportive in matters pertaining to working conditions, gender equality and diversity as well as study environment.
• Work and study in Stockholm, close to nature and the water.
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH.

Eligibility

To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:

• passed a degree at advanced level,
• completed course requirements of at least 240 higher education credits, of which at least 60 higher education credits at advanced level, or
• in any other way acquired within or outside the country acquired essentially equivalent knowledge.
• Requirements for English equivalent to English B/6, read more here.

Selection

In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:

• independently pursue his or her work
• collaborate with others,
• have a professional approach and
• analyse and work with complex issues.

After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal competency.

Target degree: Doctoral degree.

Information regarding admission and employment

Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years ' time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time.

Union representatives

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Doctoral section (Students’ union on KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

You will find contact information for doctoral section on the section's website.

Application

Apply for the position and admission through KTH's recruitment system. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the advertisement.

Applications must be received at the last closing date at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/entral European Summer Time).

Applications must include the following elements:

• CV including your relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Application letter with a brief description of why you want to pursue research studies, about what your academic interests are and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. (Maximum 2 pages long)
• Copies of diplomas and grades from previous university studies and certificates of fulfilled language requirements (see above). Translations into English or Swedish if the original document is not issued in one of these languages.
• Representative publications or technical reports. For longer documents, please provide a summary (abstract) and a web link to the full text.
• Description of software projects you have been involved in, providing the link to open repositories with code you developed. (Maximum 2 pages long).
• Two reference letters

Other information

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Disclaimer: In case of discrepancy between the Swedish original and the English translation of the job announcement, the Swedish version takes precedence.