[comp.parallel] Interesting Job Opportunities

gary@emx.utexas.edu (gary smith) (01/04/91)

Following are two Senior Operating System Specialist job positions currently
available at The University of Texas System Center for High Performance Com-
puting (CHPC) located in northwest Austin, Texas.  CHPC recently installed a
CRAY Y-MP8/864 with 512 megaword SSD and 57 gigabytes of mass storage, along
with a CONVEX C220 support minisupercomputer (512 megabytes central memory,
20 gigabytes mass storage).  We are considering the development of network-
parallel software to use available cycles on a LAN/MAN/WAN of workstations.
We will purchase/install high-performance RISC servers this month to offload
scalar codes from our vector shared-memory supercomputers.  We plan
to purchase/install massively-parallel MIMD and/or SIMD system(s) Spring '91.

Instructions for applying follow the job descriptions.
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Position 1: Senior Operating System Specialist
            Posting Number: 0-08-01-07-9365
            Monthly Salary: $3017 or more
            Date Available: Now
            40 hours/week; work hours flexible

Required Qualifications:

    Bachelor's degree and five years of programming or systems analysis
    experience, of which two years are in operating systems programming;
    or high school graduation or equivalent and nine years of programming
    or systems analysis experience, of which two years are in operating
    systems programming

Initial Qualifications:

    Extensive experience as a system administrator for large-scale UNIX
    production system(s).  Experience in coding in C an FORTRAN.  Expe-
    rience with computer networking concepts, including experience with
    Sun's NFS, Apollo's NCS, and the lower-level protocols on which they
    are built.

Preferred Qualifications:

    Knowledge of the fundamental algorithms and data structures implemen-
    ting the System V UNIX operating system or the 4.2/4.3 BSD UNIX ope-
    rating system, including the file subsystem and process control sub-
    system of the kernel.  Understanding of the kernel system call inter-
    face to user-level processes.  Experience with the CRAY UNICOS, CONVEX
    UNIX, and SunOS UNIX systems at the system administration and develop-
    ment levels.  Experience with computer networking administration.
    Thorough knowledge and understanding of computer architecture.

Job Duties:

    To be explained during interview.
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Position 2: Senior Operating System Specialist
            Posting Number: 0-08-09-02-9365
            Monthly Salary: $3017 or more
            Date Available: Now
            40 hours/week; work hours flexible

Required Qualifications:

    Bachelor's degree and five years of programming or systems analysis
    experience, of which two years are in operating systems programming;
    or high school graduation or equivalent and nine years of programming
    or systems analysis experience, of which two years are in operating
    systems programming

Initial Qualifications:

    Extensive experience as a system administrator and resource scheduling
    and accounting software developer for UNIX and/or Mach systems.  Under-
    standing of the fundamental opportunities and limitations in moderately
    to massively parallel MIMD and SIMD computer systems.  

Preferred Qualifications:

    Extensive experience with systems software development on massively
    parallel MIMD and SIMD computer systems in a distributed computing
    environment.  Familiarity with architectural details of most massively
    parallel MIMD/SIMD distributed- and shared-memory computer systems.
    Experience with loosely-coupled (network-parallel) MIMD systems.
    
Job Duties:

    To be explained during interview.
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If you are interested in either position, send a current resume to:

Janet McCord
UT System CHPC
Balcones Research Center
10100 Burnet Rd
Austin, TX 78758-4497

Telephone: 512/471-2418

FAX: 512/471-2445

email: jnet@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu