X10 Blog from December, 2009

The IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY is seeking a candidate for a Research Staff Member position with experience in High Performance Computing.

The hired candidate will conduct research in the area of high performance computing runtimes support, in particular runtime environments for Asynchronous Partitioned Global Address Spaces (APGAS).

The candidate will design, develop and port the IBM APGAS (Asynchronous Partitioned Global Address Space) runtime; develop and optimize high performance and business applications and libraries for UPC, co-array Fortran and X10; run code on IBM Power clusters, Blue Gene servers, general purpose clusters, hybrid (e.g. accelerator based) and heterogeneous architectures.

Required qualifications

  • Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
  • Good software design and engineering abilities; familiarity with development tools: C, C++ compilers, debuggers, performance tools
  • Background in high performance computing; familiarity with MPI and development of high performance applications.
  • Excellent communication skills; good spoken and written English; motivation, ability to perform independent research

Preferred qualifications

  • Background and experience in High Performance Computing
  • knowledge of parallel algorithms
  • experience with running & tuning high performance computing applications
  • deep knowledge of MPI
  • knowledge of high performance libraries like PESSL, PETSc, FFTW, Atlas
  • Knowledge of PGAS languages: UPC, co-array Fortran, Titanium, Chapel, Fortress, X10, Global Arrays etc.
  • Deep background and experience in Compilers and optimization, including parallelization and vectorization techniques
  • Background and experience in dealing with heterogenous accelerator architectures like GPGPUs and the IBM Cell architecture.

To apply

Please visit http://www.ibm.com/employment/ and click on "Search for jobs at IBM". Type "0278655" into the search box to bring up this job position.

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