Posted by s.hettrick on 15 September 2011 - 9:11am

A Postdoctoral Research Assistant is required by the Department of Computer Science in collaboration with the School of Chemistry to work at the forefront of new science in high performance computing (HPC), biomolecular simulation, and computational chemistry.

See the full job advert for further information.

You will work as part of a team of world leaders in computational chemistry (Professor Adrian Mulholland and Dr Christopher Woods) and HPC (Simon McIntosh-Smith).

The project will design and implement a software library for HPC software developers to parallelise scientific and engineering workloads, with an initial focus on biomolecular simulations. The library will provide a workpacket/workqueue system, whereby chunks of computational work (workpackets) can be scheduled in a fault-tolerant fashion across a distributed hierarchy of workqueues. These workpackets will then be processed using a diverse range of HPC hardware, ranging from GPUs to clusters. The working system will be demonstrated by applying it to a number of grand challenges in computational chemistry, employing large scale HPC resources to scientifically important biomolecular simulation problems.

The post is funded as part of the EPSRC HPC software-development program, under a two stage grant. The post is for 24 months in the first stage. If this stage is successful, a second stage may be funded for an additional 24 to 36 months in order to further develop the software and deploy it across a wider range of applications in collaboration with domain scientists. For more information please see the project website: http://siremol.org/adaptive_dynamics

If successful, you may be appointed either on a fixed-term or a permanent contract depending on the extent of your previous relevant research experience. Further informationabout contracts can be found on the Bristol University website.