Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: matt@chook.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Matthew Wilson)
Subject: Snr. RESEARCHER - DISTR. HIGH PERF. COMPUTING
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Adelaide
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 06:03:37 GMT
Message-ID: <47cbbp$sso@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au>

Luminis

ACSys   Cooperative Research Centre for
        Advanced Computational Systems
RDN     Cooperative Research Centre for
        Research Data Networks

Fellow/Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Fellow (Level C/Level B/Level A) (Adelaide)
in the Distributed High Performance Computing Project (DHPC)

The DHPC project aims to demonstrate the use of national wide area
broadband networks to connect geographically dispersed high
performance computing platforms, to evaluate the network, processor
and data storage issues that may limit the effectiveness of such a
configuration, and to develop significant demonstration applications.

The Distributed High Performance Computing Project (DHPC) is an RDN
CRC project administered by ACSys and is co-located at the University
of Adelaide laboratories of the South Australian Parallel Computing
Centre, and at the Centre for Information Science Research of the
Australian National University.

The project is establishing, at each site, a dedicated laboratory
incorporating high-performance DEC Alpha workstations on an ATM
network and a RAID storage subsystem. A Thinking Machines CM-5
multicomputer is also connected to the ATM network at each site for
DHPC research. The ANU Storage Tek massive data storage tape robot
will also be used for DHPC research.  Each site will soon be connected
to Telstra's ATM Experimental Broadband Network (EBN). Access to
additional supercomputing facilities is also available.

The Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys)
has been established under the Commonwealth Government's CRC Program with
the mission of establishing an internationally competitive research
capability in the area of high performance advanced computational systems.
The Centre's institutional participants are The Australian National
University and CSIRO's Division of Information Technology and its core
commercial participants are Digital Equipment Corporation Australia,
Fujitsu Australia and Sun Microsystems Australia.

The Cooperative Research Centre for Research Data Networks (RDN CRC) has
also been established under the Commonwealth Government's CRC Program with
the mission to undertake research, development and education in
communications network technologies and applications, and to support
network infrastructure development.

Applications are invited for a senior research position in the DHPC Project, 
at the level of either Research Fellow (level B) or Fellow (level C),
to be located at The University of Adelaide. An appointment at Level A may
be considered.

Duties will broadly involve the conduct of multi-disciplinary research in
distributed high performance computing with a focus on provision and
demonstration of an integrated national supercomputer environment, and of
significant applications that utilize such geographically dispersed high
performance computing and massive data storage resources.

Applicants should have a strong research record and interests in one or
more of the following areas: wide area distributed network programming,
supercomputing systems and distributed data management. As the DHPC
Project is developing collaborations in the field of GIS (Geographic
Information Systems), applicants with interests in this area are
especially encouraged.

Applicants should have the ability to conduct research in: evaluation
of distribution technologies, data storage across diverse mechanisms,
massive data transfers, high level protocols, issues of latency,
reliability and utilisation.  Applicants will be expected to bring
appropriate expertise for the distributed computing environment to be
constructed as part of the project, and implementation of
demonstration applications within this environment.

An appointee at Level C would be expected to provide strong research
leadership and a research record appropriate to the position.

Enquiries:
Dr Andrew Wendelborn  (Project Leader), tel +61 8 303 4726, 
fax +61 8 303 4366, email: andrew@cs.adelaide.edu.au
Dr Francis Vaughan (Director, SACPC), tel +61 8 303 5592, 
fax +61 8 303 4366, email: francis@cs.adelaide.edu.au
Dr Zdzislaw Meglicki (ANU Coordinator), tel +61 6 249 0158,
fax +61 6 249 0747, email: Zdzislaw.Meglicki@anu.edu.au

Applicants are requested to advise the Project Leader by email of their
intention to formally apply.

Further information including the selection criteria is available via
the Web at http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~dhpc/DHPC.html, and by
anonymous ftp from cisr.anu.edu.au in /pub/DHPC/

Salary:

Fellow (Level C)
$51,692- $59,605 pa
Research Fellow (Level B)
$42,198 - $50,111 pa
Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A)
$32,914 - $40,087 pa

The appointment will be for a fixed period of up to three years.
Luminis Pty Ltd is the commercial development company of the
University of Adelaide and will employ the successful candidate.
Secondments will be considered. Applicants who are not permanent
residents of Australia will be considered.

Applications should be sent, with names, addresses and contact details
of three referees, to Luminis, PO Box 149, Rundle Mall, SA 5000, Australia.

Closing Date:  24th November 1995 (contact the Project Leader if you wish 
                 to apply after this date)


