Supercomputing Consultant Job in Santa Barbara 93106, California US
Office of Information Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Responsible for enhancing the use of supercomputing at UCSB, and is the primary interface with regional and national supercomputing centers. Responsibilities include planning, documentation, communications, class support, and user training courses, and allocation and monitoring UCSB use of supercomputing time and resources. Duties specifically include helping users of all capabilities with problems, developing and optimizing complex code, using distributed queuing systems, and visualization. Additionally, the position includes teaching orientation classes, maintaining software packages used in support of regional and national supercomputing, monitoring availability of the machines and notifying classes of any downtime.
Requirements: Education and experience equivalent to an undergraduate degree in an appropriate field such as math, physics, engineering, or computer science. Strong communication skills. Background includes experience in, and advanced knowledge of software development, performance tools, optimization, debugging tools, and numerical libraries and parallel numerical libraries . Requires in-depth knowledge of FORTRAN, C, and associated mathematics techniques for parallelization of large programs. Graphics knowledge and an ability to assist others in production of complex graphics results in the form of video, and simple plots is also required. Experience in large-scale and high-performance parallel computing systems and in computationally oriented fields (e.g., Fluid, Physics, Chemistry, Structures, etc.) is important.
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56,088 - $78,492/year DOE For primary consideration apply by 4/3/12, thereafter open until filled.
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