Anyone looking for a computational postdoc position ... with a 557-Tflop computer?

[eppur_se_muova]

Outstanding candidates are invited to apply for positions as Argonne Computational Postdoctoral Fellows. Fellows will carry out research in computational science or engineering in one of the following areas: biological science, chemistry, earth science, engineering, materials science, nuclear energy, physics, and energy science. The home research division of each fellow will be determined based on area of interest.

Fellows will develop and implement advanced computational approaches aimed at scaling applications for high-end computing systems. Using these advanced approaches, the selected fellows will conduct large-scale simulations on leadership-class computers, with the objective of producing breakthrough research in the scientific disciplines of interest.

The successful candidates will interact with both divisional researchers and staff of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) to best utilize high-performance computers. The ALCF operates a 557-teraflop IBM Blue Gene/P system for production scientific and engineering computing and a 13.9-teraflop IBM Blue Gene/P system for system software development, software testing, and tool and application porting.
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more: http://postdocjobs.com/jobs/jobdetail.php?jobid=4005798

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. I need to borrow that computer to do my taxes

Can I rent it for one second?

[Ikonoklast]

3. One second? Dayum.

Just how much money did you make last year?

[Cronus Protagonist]

7. Haven't filed taxes since 2003

Hence the long computing time required.

[Ikonoklast]

8. If I may be so bold to ask, umm, why not?

I file an extension if I can't get all my stuff together, but I always make sure I get the damn thing filed.

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. No money

Simple. I paid an accountant $300 last year to bring me up to date and he was arrested for embezzlement a short while laterm without doing my taxes first! I don't have another $300 to spare, so it will have to wait for a while.

[Ikonoklast]

10. !

I think the IRS can help you with the back taxes, if any, and sometimes they will even cut a deal for a fraction of what's owed.

But hiring an accountant that's an embezzler is a real kick in the balls.

I wish you better luck.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Can I play Tetris on it?

In between modeling the effect of gravity on the random movements of every atom of gas in a collapsing nebula ten light-years across, that is.

[Taitertots]

12. You can play tetris...

But the blocks are going to be randomly moving atoms of gas in nebula sized clusters.

[Occulus]

15. Yes, but can it play Crysis?

With everything on highest quality, of course.

[htuttle]

4. How much RAM does it have?

I'd like to render a full-size model of the planet Jupiter some evening...

[BlooInBloo]

5. That sounds awesome!

If I had it to do over again, I would specialize in either numerical analysis or Markov processes.

Sigh.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Looks like they have some expensive toys that they don't know what

to do with.

[caraher]

11. No, I'm sure they know what to do with them

They're just hiring the best people they can find to do it while working as temps (since postdoc jobs are generally for no more than 3 years, typically less).

[phantom power]

13. My god... with that horsepower I could boot Windows in a couple minutes.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. Well ... assuming it boots, sure. nt :^)

:)