[Acpc-l] Open Research Position: Performance Prediction of Distributed/Parallel Applications

[Thomas Fahringer]

The Institute for Software Science at the 
University of Vienna is offering within a 
long-term research project a

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

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

Position: Research position for a doctoral student or a post-doc.

Starting Date: April 10, 2000

Duration: 3 years

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 heterogeneous, object-oriented multi-threaded 
   parallel and distributed applications exploiting both data and 
   task parallelism. These applications are executed on clusters 
   of SMPs or on heterogeneous workstation networks. 
   Analytical performance prediction will be used to determine 
   parameterized cost functions for small reusable components of a
   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 computes 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 Science      E-mail: tf@par.univie.ac.at
Liechtensteinstr. 22                WWW: http://www.par.univie.ac.at
A-1090 Vienna, Austria