UK: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Parallel Numerical Algorithms
We currently have a position for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in ParallelNumerical Algorithms for a period of three years. The post is available fromOctober 1st (or as soon after as possible) and the appointee will work on aproject entitled "Self-Adapting Software for Grid-Based NumericalSimulation" in the School of Computing at Leeds.
The general area of research will be parallel multilevel algorithmsfor the solution of PDEs using finite difference and finite element discretizations.The key issues to be investigated relate to the development of techniques andalgorithms to produce automatically adapting software for parallel and distributed computing on computationalGrids. Amongst others, this will require the development of: dynamic load-balancingprocedures that are able to respond to observed behaviour on a given computational node; different partitioning and parallelisation techniques that are best suited to different architectural characteristics;reliable computational models, whose parameter values may be easily established at run time, in order to predict the mostefficient execution format for the hardware encountered, and; novel algorithmsfor dealing efficiently with the high latency issues arising whensimulations are undertaken across more than one Grid resource.
For further details of the project and information on how to applyplease
visit:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pkj/ParallelNumerical.html
The closing date for applications is September 5th 2005.
