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NESAP for Simulations Postdoctoral Fellow
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
United States, California, Berkeley | |
1 Cyclotron Road (Show on map) | |
Jan 30, 2024 | |
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab seeks highly motivated postdocs to join the NERSC Exascale Science Application Program (NESAP). NESAP postdocs collaborate with scientific teams to enable the solution of deep, meaningful problems across all program areas funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science. The Challenge: Enabling simulation of complex physical systems, advanced data analytics, and machine learning at scale on energy-efficient supercomputers. Successful candidates will join different teams to focus on one of the following frontiers: NESAP for Simulations (N4S): Cutting-edge simulation of complex physical phenomena requires increasing amounts of computational resources due to factors such increasing model sizes, parameter space searches, and inclusion of additional physics. N4S enables simulations to make effective use of modern high-performance computing (HPC) platforms by focusing on algorithm and data structure development and implementation on new architectures such as GPUs, exposing additional parallelism and improving scalability. To enable new discoveries through simulation, data analytics, and ML/DL, NERSC will begin deploying "Perlmutter," a Cray supercomputer, in 2020. Perlmutter, a system optimized for science, is a heterogeneous system including future-generation AMD CPUs and next-generation NVIDIA GPUs. It also has a high-speed interconnect and an all-flash file system. Perlmutter is NERSC's first production GPU-based system. Many codes running at NERSC need to be adapted or optimized to run efficiently on GPUs. At the same time, solutions that put GPU performance in users' hands need to be portable ones. NESAP is about employing cutting-edge computer science and advanced performance analysis tools to develop highly scalable, distributed parallel algorithms to meet this challenge. In this exciting role, you will be a part of a multidisciplinary team composed of computational and domain scientists working together to transition and optimize codes to the Perlmutter system and produce mission-relevant science that pushes the limits of HPC. You will carry out code transition efforts in collaboration with a project PI and team members with the support of NERSC and vendor staff. Successful candidates are expected to collaborate with each other across NESAP program areas (N4S, N4D, N4L). NESAP has established a track record of enabling its postdocs to pursue careers in data science, HPC, and scientific computing both in industry and at national labs. Take a look at what current and former NESAP postdocs are up to here. What You Will Do:
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