DUG Technology
West Perth, AUHPC Expert
At DUG, we offer high-performance computing as a service (HPCaaS) for a wide variety of clients. Built on many years of experience in geophysics, our world-class compute cluster is tailor-made for scientific computing and attracts a diverse range of computationally-intensive projects.
We’re looking for an HPC Expert with experience in on-boarding clients, helping them to build and tune complex packages for performance on DUG’s worldwide HPC infrastructure.
As HPC Expert, you’ll be part of a team of technical experts responsible for ensuring that customers can use our compute infrastructure as productively as possible. Your pragmatic approach will help you deal with third-party software that's not always especially easy to build, compile, understand and tune. You’ll become proficient in the languages and techniques used in these projects, as well as an evolving and somewhat-unique HPC environment.
The HPC Expert will work with end users to perform onboarding, installation, porting, optimisation and tuning.
Responsibilities:
Work with customers to achieve successful use of DUG McCloud
Benchmark customer codes against different hardware within DUG McCloud
Install, port, optimise and tune codes for optimal performance on DUG McCloud
Work with vendors to benchmark new hardware
Understand existing and new hardware and how it might benefit DUG McCloud
Prerequisites:
Ability to install complex unix packages and dependencies.
Programming ability in at least one of C, C++, Fortran
Ability to program with at least one of OpenMP, MPI, OpenAAC, Cuda or pthreads
Code optimisation techniques
Strong problem solving skills
Ability to use batch queueing systems
Bash scripting
An understanding of modern computer, network and IO architecture
An understanding of parallel IO and various parallel file systems
Experience with team collaboration and version control, ideally git
Desirable:
A true Bash expert
Python scripting
Network performance and tuning
I/O performance and tuning
Linux kernel tuning
Ability to vector program
Scientific programming background to understand a wide range of numerical algorithms and techniques