Research Position Available

[Thomas Fahringer]

The Institute for Software Technology and Parallel Systems at the 
University of Vienna is offering within a research project a

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	***	Research Position in Performance Prediction of   ***
	***	    Parallel and Distributed Applications	 ***
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Applicants should have knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

	+ parallel and distributed systems
	+ programming skills
	    + parallel programming (HPF, MPI, threads, ...)
	    + distributed programming (Java)
	+ performance modeling (analytical + simulation)
	+ simulation tools (discrete event simulation)

Starting Date: immediately

Duration: Until March 2000.
	We are currently in the process to apply for project extension 
	until March 2003 which would also mean that this position is
	funded until that time.

Project Summary:

	The position is offered as part of a long-term research project 
	about performance-oriented application development for parallel 
	and distributed systems.

	The main task of this position requires to develop a performance 
	prediction tool for object-oriented multi-threaded parallel and 
	distributed applications exploiting both data and task parallelism. 
	These applications are executed on clusters of SMPs or network of 
	workstations. Analytical performance prediction will be used to 
	determine parameterized cost functions for small components of the
	parallel/distributed application. Parameters in cost functions 
	reflect the problem sizes of an application and the machine sizes 
	of a target architecture. Simulation will be used to model 
	highly dynamic behavior of applications and architectures, in 
	particular, data exchange, synchronization, thread context-switches, 
	etc. The performance prediction tool determines cost functions which 
	describe various performance parameters, including estimated 
	execution and communication times, synchronization overhead, memory 
	locality, load balance, etc. 

For more information, please contact

	Thomas Fahringer (tf@par.univie.ac.at)


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Thomas Fahringer, Ph.D.              Tel: (office): +43 1 310 56 08 - 86 
Associate Professor                  Tel: (sec):    +43 1 310 56 08 - 71  
University of Vienna                 Fax: +43 1 310 56 08 - 88 
Institute for Software Technology    E-mail: tf@par.univie.ac.at
and Parallel Systems                 WWW: http://www.par.univie.ac.at
Liechtensteinstr. 22                 
A-1090 Vienna, Austria