RELAY.CS.NET (09/18/89)
Hello. This is a job posting. If its presence here offends you, I apologize. This is not a naive posting; I believe that these jobs are interesting opportunities for people who are likely to be reading precisely these newsgroups, and unlikely to be found among the casual perusers of misc.jobs.*. If you feel the need to flame, please do it to me directly, and don't waste net bandwidth with your fury, nor change the foci of valuable groups. (I recognize I'm doing that to some degree with this posting, but again, please just skip this message if you feel it's out of order.) Please page down past the form feed char if you want to read about the opportunities. Let me first introduce the iWarp project. iWarp is a joint research and development project between Intel and Carnegie-Mellon University, sponsored by DARPA. The iWarp team is building a multicomputer (O(10) to O(1000) PEs) based on a new 20 MIPS, 20 MFLOPS single chip processor. The processor also contains a "silicon network" with a 320 MByte/sec/cell aggregate bandwidth, supporting both systolic (1D and 2D) and message-passing communication models. The system is optimized for image and signal processing applications, and will deliver multi GFLOPS performance. A good introductory technical reference for the project is Borkar, S. et. al., "iWarp: an Integrated Solution to High-speed Parallel Computing", in the IEEE _Proceedings of the Supercomputing Conference_, Orlando, Fl. Nov. 1988. The project is located near Portland, OR. We will be collocated with Intel Scientific Computer Division (iSC), the group responsible for Intel's commercial hypercube machine - the iPSC/2 - but the iWarp project is a separate entrepreneurial group, relatively independent from the rest of Intel. We've found it difficult to find people who have the needed skills through the normal channels; thus this appeal to the net. We need two very senior software engineers having experience with parallel systems: one to work on debugging tools, and a second to work on a parallel file system. The first is a person who can take full responsibility for the architecture and implementation of a wide range of parallel and single cell debugging tools for the iWarp project. This person's skills should include having built debuggers for both single- and multi- computers, including having designed and developed the supporting kernel structures, having specified the language processor support, and having built user interfaces to the debugging tools. The second person will design and implement a fast, high capacity attached file system. The system must provide access to data files potentially larger than a single disk, and should allow parallel access to blocks stored across several physical volumes to balance the relatively slow disk I/O bandwidth with the high internal aggregate computation and interprocessor communication bandwidths characteristic of the iWarp cell array. Evaluation of disk technologies, including redundancy issues, and the design of the associated kernel support will also be parts of this job. Both are single-person projects, at the moment - the designs are wide open, with very few constraints or givens. So too are our long-term organizational plans: either or both of these jobs may evolve to encompass supervisory responsibilities, if that is desired by the people we hire to do the architecture and initial implementations. If you believe you have the appropriate skills, please send your resume to me. No new college grads, please, unless you've done research/thesis work in *directly* related areas. We will be staffing to higher levels over the next year, however, and will eventually need generalists with backgrounds in operating systems and languages. I will be more than happy to accept a pile of feeler resumes from people who have an interest in the project, but who are not appropriate for the two "hot" positions we are trying to fill now. In that case, please indicate in a cover letter that your response is for our "later" file. I can be reached in one of the following manners: By U.S. mail; Paul Weiss Manager, Systems Software Intel iWarp Division JF1-60 5200 N.E. Elam Young Pkwy. Hillsboro OR 97124 By email; pweiss@iWarp.intel.com By phone; (503)696-4239 Thanks Paul