Position details
Climate models on Parallel Architectures
Job offer & Post-Doc ›
Climate Modelling And Global Change - Software development
Required Education / Niveau requis
Master (Computing sciences)
From / Date de début
September-October 2010
Duration / Durée
18 months
Context / Contexte
The CERFACS Global Change team main activity consists on climate studies based on modeling.In particular, our team is involved in the definition and the processing of the next IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) exercice simulations.
OASIS coupling software, widely used on international community, has been developed in our team for about 20 years.
This expertise gives us the opportunity to continuously adapt our code to the most powerful supercomputers in the world (Earth Simulator, IBM Blue Gene ...)
This position is funded by SPADES (Servicing Petascale Architectures and DistributEd System) ANR project, a partnership with INRIA (french national institute for research in computer science and control) and particularly Saclay (LRI) and ENS Lyon (LIP) laboratories.
Climate system components are provided by the Centre National de Recherche en Météorologie (CNRM, Météo-France) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Université Paris VI).
The engineer will contribute to existing climate model configuration setup on scalar machines and to its results validation.
Moreover, she/he will define and implement a strategy to manage the important data volume produced by our models.
The engineer will participate to collaboration with SPADES partners, and with modeling laboratory for atmosphere (Météo-France Toulouse) and ocean (LOCEAN Paris).
She/he will be familiar with geophysics modeling, code coupling (MPI communication library) or Fortran code writing for massively parallel processing. The engineer will be prepared to working methods on supercomputers (IBM Power6, IDRIS and/or SGI Altix, CINES are the targeted platforms).
Description / Description
Candidates should have a master degree, or equivalent experience, in the computing sciences, and good knowledge of scientific programming.A background in atmosphere, ocean or coupled modeling, as well as experience in processing of large datasets, would be an advantage.
For more information about CERFACS see: http://www.cerfacs.fr/
For more information about SPADES see: http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/SPADES/SPADES/Home.html
The deadline for applications is October 1st, 2010, although the search will remain open until the position is filled.
Contacts / Contacts
Name: Eric Maisonnave
Phone: 05.61.19.30.12
Fax: 05.61.19.30.00
Email: Eric.Maisonnave[at]cerfacs.fr
Salary / Rémunération
2000 € net /months
