Phd Students Positions in Reliable Embedded Processors, Spain

BSC-CNS (Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación) is the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain and was officially constituted in April 2005. BSC-CNS manages MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, located at the Torre Girona chapel. The mission of BSC-CNS is to investigate, develop and manage information technology in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof and currently has over 400 staff from 41 countries.  To get an idea of what its like to work at the BSC take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRkEii7OzRE

Context and Mission:

Applications are invited for PhD student positions in the research lines of the Computer Architecture Operating System Department (http://www.bsc.es/caos) at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).

The CAOS group (www.bsc.es/caos) is a very active research group with more than 20 papers published only in the last two years. In this same period the CAOS group i) has led several European projects PROARTIS (http://proartis-project.eu/) and PROXIMA (http://proxima-project.eu/); and ii) it has participated in other projects: MERASA (http://www.merasa.org/), parMERASA (http://www.parmerasa.eu/) and VeTeSS (http://vetess.eu/). The CAOS group is actively working with the European Space Agency around the use of multicore processors in the Space domain (some of them listed in http://microelectronics.esa.int/ngmp/).

Key Duties

• We are offering PhD Students positions for a period of 4 years respectively in the CAOS group on dependable embedded systems.
• The objective of this position is to do a PhD in the field of reliable processor architectures for real-time systems.

Requirements

• Education
  • Master
• Knowledge
  • Computer Architecture (multi-threading and multi-core)
  • Performance analysis
  • Programming (C/C++, assembler, VHDL or Verilog)
  • Digital circuits
  • CMOS technology 

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences department in collaboration with the specific program coordinator. The fellowship will be for 4 years.

Applications Procedure

All applications must be included:

1. A motivation letter
2. A full CV including contact details
3. Two reference LETTERS or CONTACTS

BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.

Deadline : Wednesday, 30 March, 2016

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