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PhD student position in Computer Architecture and Parallel Runtime Systems

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Information about the division

The High-Performance Computer Architecture Group, in the Division of Computer Engineering, under the leadership of Professor Per Stenström, is conducting research on design principles for the next generations of computer systems. To ease the programming task and yet achieve high and predictable computational performance at as high energy efficiency as possible is an important objective in the knowledge generation process that the group contributes with. To this end, the group has a solid track record and a long-term focus on contributing to design principles of parallel computers. Three senior faculty members, two postdocs and 10 PhD students are engaged in research in computer architecture.

The group is also a founding partner of the HiPEAC European Network of Excellence and the FET EuroLab-4-HPC and engaged in several EU and national projects with strong ties to industry. A driving theme regards new hardware/software interfaces to ease the task of designing software for exploiting the computational performance of heterogeneous multi/many-core computers.

Major responsibilities

MECCA (Meeting the Challenges in Computer Architecture) is a European Research Council (ERC) project that commenced in February 2014. Its goals are ambitious: It is committed to deliver critical technologies to design computers beyond 2020 to keep delivering an exponential computational performance growth, to be orders of magnitude more energy efficient and to deliver predictable response times through parallel processing. Specifically, the project aims at building abstractions to software developers to offload them from resource management issues (Parallelism, Power, Predictability - the three P's) by innovations in the compiler, runtime system and computer architecture areas. In collaboration with the other seven members of the project team, you are expected to contribute to top-class research towards the vision of the project in the following topic:

Co-design of computer architectures and runtime systems for highly efficient and predictable execution of parallel programs.

Position summary

Full-time temporary employment. The position is limited to a maximum of five years. During this time you are expected to obtain a PhD degree. This encompasses 20% departmental duties (typically teaching), 20% studies for credits towards your PhD and 60% research.

Qualifications

To qualify as a PhD student, you must have a master's level degree corresponding to at least 240 higher education credits in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or in a related field with a good foundation in computer architecture. You are highly motivated, self-propelled, energetic, independent and with a well-developed analytical problem-solving ability. As a person, you are empathetic, loyal and have high ethical standards. Your communication skills in English (literal as well as oral) are of a high quality. Since the research work involves developing runtime systems and simulation models, good programming skills are required. It is meritorious if you have taken courses in operating systems, distributed systems, real-time systems and compilers.

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Application procedure

The application should be marked with Ref 20160124 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically via Chalmers webpage.

Application deadline: 1 May 2016

For questions, please contact:

Professor Per Stenström

per.stenstrom (at) chalmers.se

+46 31 772 17 61

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Land: Sweden

Område: Västra Götalands län

Avtalstid: Permanent

Typ av kontrakt: Full time

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