Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: Fritz Knabe Subject: Jobs in parallel distributed computing and in computational science Organization: University of Virginia Date: 24 Mar 1998 01:34:51 GMT Message-ID: <6f72jr$lir$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> JOB OPPORTUNITIES: - Builders/designers/implementors for a distributed computing infrastructure uniting very large collections of networked computers - Computational scientist for distributed, high-performance, parallel scientific computation in physics, chemistry, environmental science, or astronomy The Legion project is a multimillion-dollar research effort to design, implement, and deploy an integrated, large-scale metacomputing system. Users of our infrastructure will run sequential and parallel applications on widely scattered machines with many of the same services and convenience as when using a traditional single-host operating system. Our work spans distributed object technologies, parallel processing and I/O, security, fault tolerance, resource allocation, internet programming, and communication protocols. Current clients include supercomputing centers of the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense---the challenge being to make their vast compute resources and "big iron" better utilized by researchers throughout the U.S. If you are interested in doing state-of-the-art, highly ambitious computer science or computational science, and you would also like to stretch your skills while learning new ones, you may be interested in working with us. Legion is based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Led by Professor Andrew Grimshaw, the team comprises eleven other faculty and staff who work full-time on the project, along with graduate and undergraduate students. We are urgently seeking three to four research computer scientists and a domain computational scientist to help us continue to design, build, and use Legion. Unlike many research projects, we are strongly committed to deploying our code. Our system is designed to be run today, and our implementation work is strongly focused on this objective. Through our collaborations with other institutions, the needs of real users and administrators become incorporated into our research. We're also building a 128-node cluster supercomputer based on 533-MHz Alpha workstations and gigabit, low-latency networking---this platform will run Legion and serve scientists at the University of Virginia and elsewhere. The Legion project offers an excellent working environment. We enjoy an academic setting that is relaxed and flexible and offers exposure to a wide variety of other experimental systems research. At the same time, we work hard to make our results count outside the ivory tower. We are located in Charlottesville, Virginia, a great university town with a very high quality of life. If you want to do top-notch computer science without living in suburbia and commuting to an anonymous office park, this is the way to do it. QUALIFICATIONS We want strongly motivated, self-starting individuals who can take a chunk of the project and run with it---we're not going to manage you every step of the way. You'll also find, though, that Legion is a challenging project with complex, sophisticated software, and that working with other team members is essential to making progress. - We seek research computer scientists who are comfortable with designing, building and debugging highly concurrent, distributed codes written in C++. Although we are interested in all levels of education from Bachelor's to Ph.D., we are more interested in your experience and abilities. - We also seek a domain computational scientist who is comfortable with Fortran, C++, parallel programming, and distributed parallel programming environments such as PVM and MPI. Your principal training should be in a scientific discipline such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, or environmental sciences. You will help span the gap between our implementation team and our early users. If you are interested in applying, please send your resume to Legion Research Group c/o Dr. Fritz Knabe Department of Computer Science Thornton Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 E-mail: knabe@cs.virginia.edu (Postscript and PDF documents okay) More information on Legion, the department, and Charlottesville may be found at http://legion.virginia.edu/ and http://www.cs.virginia.edu/. The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. -- Articles to parallel@ctc.com (Administrative: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel