Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: vasu@sina.hpc.uh.edu (Vasudha Govindan)
Subject: Position in Parallel and Distributed Computing
Organization: Texas Center for Advanced Molecular Computation
Date: 17 Oct 1997 20:10:40 GMT
Message-ID: <628go0$ti2$3@Masala.CC.UH.EDU>

We seek someone to help develop and deploy robust, scalable software 
for a broad range of areas of Molecular Science, including improved 
image reconstruction of macromolecules, for the efficient calculation 
of electrostatic interactions in large systems, and for the treatment 
of reactions in complex systems.

The software will be designed to offer good load--balance on parallel 
platforms to support large computational tasks (such as molecular 
dynamics simulations) in a meta-computing environment, using advanced
tools such as the Legion system (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~legion).  
You will work with an exceptional team of computer scientists, biologists,
mathematicians, chemists and others collaborating to solve leading-edge
problems in biomedical science.

The position is in support of the National Partnership for Advanced 
Computational Infrastructure (NPACI, see http://www.npaci.edu/Online)
based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and the work will 
be done with the W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology (see
http://www-bioc.rice.edu/index.html), a consortium in Houston, Texas,
drawing researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, 
and the University of Houston. The expected term of the appointment
does not have a spcific limit, but it is dependent on the continued
funding of SDSC/NPACI which has support for five years with an option
to renew for an additional five years.

Candidates should have either
-- a PhD in CS with emphasis on numerical methods, parallel and 
   distributed computing and software tools, together with experience 
   in applications
-- a PhD in computational science with experience with advanced 
   programming languages, software tools and parallel computing,
-- or comparable experience and publications.

For further information, contact Ridgway Scott (scott@uh.edu), Director,
Texas Center for Advanced Molecular Computation, University of Houston 
(see http://www.hpc.uh.edu/tcamc).