比利时鲁汶天主教大学高性能粒子研究博士后职位

Occupation: Full-time
Period: Fixed-term contract extendable
Place: Leuven
Apply no later than: March 31, 2015

    The Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics (CmPA) of the Department of Mathematics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) accepts applications for one post-doctoral position within the framework of the DEEP-ER project funded by the European Commission within the FP7 program (deep-er.eu). DEEP-ER involves 13 project partners from 7 European countries, including the supercomputing centers in Juelich and Barcelona. KU Leuven’s participation in the DEEP-ER project aims for efficient scaling of kinetic plasma simulation on emerging massively parallel architectures. A specific goal is to efficiently occupy the Many-Integrated-Core (MIC) units on the Cluster-Booster supercomputer architecture being developed under DEEP-ER with the task of resolving electron kinetics at scales needed for space weather forecasting. To ensure that computation is not dominated by other tasks, efficient parallel I/O and task-based resiliency are being developed in addition to improvements in computation parallelisation (vectorization, multi-threading, and MPI communication patterns) and improvements in the kinetic algorithm itself.

Postdoc position at KU Leuven on high performance implementation of particle methods

    The researchers will have access to large parallel computing facilities and to a stimulating research environment within the CmPA. The researchers will be employed by KU Leuven, but collaborations with other computing and plasma simulation centers is encouraged. The work place is Leuven, a historic university town (our university is one of the oldest in Europe, founded in 1425) located just 20 minutes from the center of Brussels and 15 minutes from Brussels international airport, making it easily reachable for international travelers. Leuven is an international city located in the Flemish (Dutch speaking) part of Belgium, where English is spoken routinely in all places (from University and public offices to shops and entertainment venues).