Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm From: mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Mario Antonioletti) Subject: Positions Available at EPCC. Message-Id: Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:21:32 GMT If you are interested please do not reply directly back to me. Please see the instructions below. Good luck. Mario. ---- ************************************************************************ * Two Job Vacancies at the EDINBURGH PARALLEL COMPUTING CENTRE * * Closing Date: 11 December 1998. Details as below. * ************************************************************************ EDINBURGH PARALLEL COMPUTING CENTRE (EPCC) EPCC is a technology transfer centre in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, which promotes the exploitation of High Performance Computing (HPC) in industry and academia. Established in 1990, it now has around 45 staff, first-class facilities (including a 512-processor Cray T3D and a 344-processor T3E), and a client list ranging from local companies to multi-nationals and computer vendors. Applications Consultants (2 posts) A number of vacancies exist for applications consultants at EPCC. Duties will include the porting and optimisation of novel, computationally intensive applications on HPC systems, and providing technical consultancy to both industrial and academic users. Good communication skills are important and there are opportunities to produce HPC training material and technical reports. Candidates must be competent in either Fortran or C, have good numerical skills, and should be adaptable and self-motivated. Other useful technical skills are a good grounding in scientific research, computer science, numerical simulation or visualisation. The posts are available immediately on a one year rolling contract. Salary scale: UKP 15,735 - 23, 651 p.a., with placement depending on experience and qualifications. Please quote Ref: 896866WW Further particulars including details of the application procedure should be obtained from the Personnel Department, 1 Roxburgh Street, Edinburgh EH8 9TB or Tel: 0131-650-2511 (24 hour answering service). Closing Date: 11 December 1998 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | | Tel:0131 650 5026:mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk:http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/| -------------------------------------------------------------------------