[Storage-research-list] Postdoctoral Research Associate position available at OLCF ORNL

[Oral, H. Sarp]

[Apologies if you get duplicate copies]

Postdoctoral Research Associate position available at OLCF ORNL


The Technology Integration (TechInt) Group at Oak Ridge Leadership
Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is
seeking applicants for the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate in
HPC Storage Systems.  The TechInt Group is responsible for updating and
integrating the networks, files systems, and archival storage
infrastructure into the OLCF computing systems. The group researches and
evaluates emerging technologies and provides system programming to
seamlessly integrate new technologies and tools into the infrastructure as
they are adopted. As the OLCF computing resources continue to scale up,
the TechInt group works to develop tools that allow users to take full
advantage of the leadership-class systems.

The successful candidate will work with a team at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory to conduct research on existing and emerging high-performance
scalable parallel file and object storage systems, such as Lustre and
Ceph. The applicant will also be responsible for characterizing and
analyzing high-performance computing (HPC) I/O workloads and developing
I/O benchmarks, performance evaluation tools, and techniques mimicking
these workloads.


Required Qualification:_______________________

Candidate should have a Ph.D. in computer engineering or science, or
related discipline.

The following qualifications are also required:
€ C/C++ programming under Unix.
€ Shell and Perl or Python programming.
€ Technical comprehension of networking, and system software for HPC
platforms.
€ Knowledge on high-performance networking technologies such as Infiniband
or SAS and in-depth understanding of the TCP/IP stack.
€ Knowledge in performance analysis.
€ In-depth understanding in operating system kernels (Linux in
particular), parallel tools, distributed computing and/or software
development.
€ Collaborative skills, including the ability to work well with others.
€ Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
_________________________

€ Understanding of HPC computer architecture issues including CPU, memory,
interconnect and parallel I/O.
€ Considerable expertise in parallel programming, multi-core systems, data
flow analysis, and scientific application codes.
€ Considerable expertise in creating high-quality software.
€ Understanding in one or more of scalable parallel file systems, such as
Lustre, Ceph, GPFS, PVFS.
€ Understanding in I/O middleware in HPC platforms.
€ Expertise in I/O performance evaluation and benchmarking techniques,
tools, and methodology.
€ Expertise in storage area networking.
€ Knowledge of and familiarity with NoSQL databases, Key-Value stores,
€ Knowledge in Map-Reduce and scalable data analysis techniques.




Please apply at https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/392

Thanks,


Sarp


-- 
Sarp Oral, PhD

National Center for Computational Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
oralhs at ornl.gov
865-574-2173