Seeking Researchers
| Laboratory |
HPC Usability Research Team, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science
(Team Leader: Dr. Toshiyuki MAEDA) |
|---|---|
| Research Field |
AICS is the organization which has two major divisions, one for research and development of computational science and the other for operation of the K supercomputer. AICS cooperates with many research organizations of a wide-range of research fields, forms an international center for research and development, and plays the leading role of computational science in Japan. In AICS, computer science and computational science closely cooperate, and conducts research and development of common foundational nature for a wide range of fields in computational science, and also conducts research and development for high performance computing technologies.
The mission of the HPC Usability Research Team is to research and develop a framework for liberating large-scale High-Performance Computing (as exemplified by the K supercomputer) for end-users and developers. In order to achieve the goal, we conduct research in the following three fields:
1. Computing portal that lowers the threshold for using, providing, and aggregating computing/data services.
2. Virtualization technologies for achieving security and fairness among services, users, and providers. In addition, we also study lightweight virtualization techniques for realizing virtual large-scale HPC for test, debug, and verification of services. 3. Software verification approaches for large-scale parallel programs on the basis of static/dynamic analysis of deterministic parallelism. |
| Job title and Job description |
[Available positions]
Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher, a few people [Description] You will be engaged in research/studies of elemental technologies and design/implementation of systems in one or more of the following three items:
1. Research and development of support software for construction of computing portals that lower the threshold for provision and use of computing services.
2. Research and development of computing resource virtualization for providing computing services. 3. Research and development of analysis and verification of parallel programs in large-scale distributed parallel computing. |
| Qualification | The position requires a Ph.D. (or expected completion by the day of employment. If it has been 5 years or less since your acquisition of Ph.D. degree, you will be employed as a Postdoctoral Fellow), or its superior in skills and knowledge. We welcome skilled and motivated people who have experience and knowledge in one or more of the following areas: distributed/parallel systems (e.g., cloud computing systems, grid computing systems, cluster systems, etc.), virtualization technologies (e.g., hardware-assisted virtualization, paravirtualization, OS-level virtualization, application-level virtualization, etc.), program analysis (e.g., type theory, software model checking, proof-assistants, etc.), and distributed/parallel programming (e.g, MPI, MapReduce, OpenMP, etc.). The research environment will be international and hence communication in English (or Japanese) is required. |
| Work location |
HPC Usability Research Team is located in the following address.
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, 7-1-26, Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, JAPAN |
| Salary and benefits |
Full-time position with an annually renewable contract based on the evaluation up to five years, closing of the organization, or the end of project. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Commuting and housing allowances will be provided. Social insurance will be applied. Mandatory membership in the RIKEN Mutual Benefit Society (RIKEN Kyosaikai).
Days off includes public holidays, New Year's holidays (Dec. 29 - Jan 3), and RIKEN Foundation Day. These and other provisions are in accordance with RIKEN regulations. Also, you will be eligible for an exemption from repayment for category 1 scholarship loans provided by the Japan Student Services Organization before fiscal year 2003, and eligible for applying for the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) of Japan. |
| Application and Required documents |
Please send the following documents to the mailing address given below.
1. CV (with your photo, your email address, and your programming skills)
2. List of research achievements (publications, presentations, awards, software development/release projects you are involved in, etc.) 3. Evidences of your competence (e.g., papers, source code of software, etc., up to 5 items) 4. Overview of achievements and future perspectives (2 pages) 5. At least one letter of recommendation from a person who can evaluate your work. The letter should be addressed to the Director of RIKEN Advanced Institute of Computational Science [Deadline] Until the final candidate is found. [Handling Personal Data] All private data sent to RIKEN in application for employment will be handled in strict confidentiality, and such data will not be utilized for any other purpose or disclosed to any third party. Application documents will not be returned. |
| Selection process | Applicants who pass the document screening will undergo an interview (at most) twice by HPC Usability Research Team and AICS. (In some cases, additional skill tests may be conducted.) |
| Start of employment | Earliest date possible (negotiable). |
| Contact information and Send application to |
General Affairs Section, Research Support Division
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science 7-1-26, Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, JAPAN 
Please make sure to write "Application for (name of the position) of HPC Usability Research Team" in red on the envelope. |