Oxford Parallel, the Parallel Applications Centre of the University of Oxford, is a major centre for industrial applications of parallel computing. It is pioneering a new approach to the development of architecture independent software for scalable parallel computing systems, based on the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) model. Oxford Parallel now seeks to appoint three new research officers to work on two new projects in this area. Both projects will run for three years from April 1995, directed by Bill McColl. They are both funded by the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council. Salary will be on the experience related RS1A scale, currently 13,941-20,953 pounds/annum
The first project "A BSP Programming Environment" is primarily concerned with the design and implementation of BSP software tools. The aim is to produce an integrated environment for the support of BSP programming, with training, benchmarking, debugging, performance analysis and prediction, data partitioning and superstep transformation facilities. For this project we seek two researchers, preferably with a Ph.D. or M.Sc. in computer science, who have experience in software tool development. Experience in parallel programming is desirable, but not essential.
The second project "Design, analysis and implementation of BSP algorithms" is concerned with the development of a comprehensive and integrated library of BSP algorithms for computationally intensive problems. For this project we seek a researcher, preferably with a Ph.D. in computer science, who has experience in parallel algorithms and their implementation.
To apply for any of these three posts, please email a brief C.V. (ASCII text only, no more than three pages) and the names and (email) addresses of two referees to: bsp-jobs@comlab.ox.ac.uk .
The email should be sent before 13 April 1995 for full consideration. All three posts are available immediately. Some papers giving further information about the BSP approach are available .
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