gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (05/02/85)
CORNELL UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THEORY AND SIMULATION IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (THEORY CENTER) _W_H_O _W_E _A_R_E _A_N_D _W_H_A_T _W_E _D_O The Theory Center is looking for experienced and creative people interested in helping us build a "1990's environment" for scientific computing. We have initiatives planned or in progress in parallel systems, graphics, networking/distributed systems, and compilers/languages/environments for scientific worksta- tions. As the recipient of one of the NSF Supercomputer Facility awards, and the only Facility (of four) committed to paral- lel processing we can offer very high visibility. The na- tional press has on several occasions called Cornell the "one to watch". _W_H_A_T _W_E _W_A_N_T / _W_H_O _W_E _W_A_N_T Our immediate need is for: 1) Several experienced people, preferably with solid back- grounds in Computer Science, who understand UNIX inter- nals and networking and are interested in becoming in- volved in the challenges of parallel processing and distributed systems. 2) We want at least one person able to write compilers and contribute to an optimization project which will in- clude an AI component to let the user help with the op- timization. 3) We need one person to undertake the coordination of all the UNIX machines on our network (about 12 at present). This involves teaching the support staff at these sites about UNIX, about graphics, about scientific computing and cajoling them into conforming to some loose stan- dards. This person is also vital as the provider of feedback to the rest of the group on what's happening "out in the field". 4) We are looking for two Research (Computational) Associ- ates who will be responsible for working directly with scientists in helping them get their applications run- ning, partcularly parallel applications. This person must have significant competance in science, but must also have experience in languages other than FORTRAN, and UNIX experience. These are not at present management positions, but we are looking for people who have experience as project leaders, or at least that potential, since we expect to form groups working in several of the above areas over the next few years. _A _B_I_T _M_O_R_E _B_A_C_K_G_R_O_U_N_D Our current system is an IBM 3084/QX with four attached FPS 264 Scientific Processors. There is a group which has as its responsiblity the care of that system, but there is another group whose mission is rather different and it's the latter group for which we are recruiting. The immediate need is to build a UNIX interface which will allow the scientists (who mostly are users of UNIX machines on a net- work called Theorynet) to access the facilities of the IBM/FPS complex remotely without needing to become involved in the IBM operating system. We expect to base this software on the SUN network file system RPC and XDT proto- cols and define our own applications layer. We will be acquiring a Gould 9050 to serve as a UNIX home for remote users, who will come in mainly over ARPANET. This will also be a development machine for the staff, although we expect to have various workstations (SUN, HP, etc.) as well. We have one parallel system at present, which consists of eight FPS scientifics processors and a shared mass memory on a high-speed bus. This system is attached to a UNIX host and the software is UNIX-based. The longer-term plan (say 18 months) is to acquire a paral- lel system with >64 processors and at least 400 megaflops which would be under the purview of the UNIX group. We have a system in mind, but cannot talk about it. We don't plan to build a system, but to buy it. However, we expect to develop much of the software ourselves, and this effort has already begun in a very modest way. There is plenty of challenge here. There will also be a great deal of interest in what we do, and how we do it, so if we are successful our staff will have fame in abundance. _W_H_O _T_O _C_O_N_T_A_C_T Please send a resume and a cover letter indicating which area you are interested in, to Alison Brown Cornell Theory Center 265 Olin Hall Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 ARPA: alison@cornell UUCP: ....{cmcl2,decvax,ihnp4,seismo}!cornell!alison
hestenes@sdcsla.UUCP (Eric Hestenes) (05/11/85)
> > CORNELL UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THEORY AND > SIMULATION IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (THEORY CENTER) > > Alison Brown You may think you will be the only ones doing parallel processing work, but in reality parallel processing work is certain to emerge ( and is planned at least in S.D. ) on all the 4 supercomputers. How could anyone pass up the chance to speak in *vectors* rather than in serial cycles? Eric ------------------------------------- |this *opinion* is exclusively my own | ------------------------------------- hestenes@nprdc ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcsla!hestenes --------- Expect it .... ....... when you least expect it. --------