Jan. 27 — The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center at Berkeley Lab has several openings for Computational Science Postdoctoral Fellows to conduct applied research and development in the area of energy-efficient high-performance scientific computing (HPC). The positions are part of a larger effort to enable new, pathbreaking science with NERSC’s next generation manycore supercomputer. This unique opportunity will focus on transforming high-profile applications in fusion, climate, chemistry, astrophysics, material science, and other areas for the Cray KNL-based “Cori” system.
Now in its forty-first year, NERSC is the leading provider of mission computing resources for all projects funded by the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the Nation’s largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. At Berkeley Lab, NERSC is part of a Computing Sciences organization that includes world-class computation and networking facilities co-located with leading computer science and applied mathematics research and development. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to gain knowledge of NERSC’s HPC environment and the skills necessary for successful deployment of large-scale multi-user hardware and software. The assignment will be at NERSC at Berkeley Lab, but may involve travel to sites at other labs and universities. There will be access to leading edge computational platforms and, most significantly, to prototypes of experimental systems, including ample allocation of early-access time on the new NERSC Cori system. The appointee will be mentored by an existing NERSC project PI. Participation in postdoctoral career and science enrichment activities within the Berkeley Lab Computing Research Division will also be encouraged.
Fellows will be working in multidisciplinary teams composed of computer, computational, and domain scientists that will transition codes to the Cori system and produce mission-relevant science that truly pushes the limits of high-end computing. Candidates will carry out code transition and simulation efforts in collaboration with project PI and team members and with NERSC and vendor staff. Specific duties may include analysis and optimization of parallel applications; performance engineering; development of improved algorithms and implementations for manycore systems; and research in a specific computational application domain. Fellows will be expected to disseminate results of research activities through refereed publications and conference presentations and to ensure that new methods are suitably documented for other members of the extraordinary postdoc team as well as for NERSC staff, vendors, and NERSC users.
Projects Available for Postdoc Assignment
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Source: NERSC