3-4 PhD student positions in Computer System Architecture

Information about the research group
The High-Performance Computer Architecture Group, in the Division of Computer Engineering, under the leadership of Professor Per Stenstrom, is conducting research on design principles for the next generations of parallel computer systems. An important research objective is to ease the programming task and yet achieve high and predictable computational performance at as high an energy efficiency as possible. To this end, the group has a solid track record and a long-term focus on design principles of parallel computers. Four senior faculty members, three postdocs and ten Ph.D students are engaged in research in computer system architecture.

The group is also a co-founding partner of the HiPEAC European Network of Excellence and engaged in several EU and national projects with strong ties to industry. A driving theme regards new hardware/software interfaces to ease the task of designing software for exploiting the computational performance of multi/many-core computers.

Major responsibilities
MECCA (Meeting the Challenges in Computer Architecture) is a European Research Council (ERC) project to commence in February 2014.  Its goals are ambitious: It is committed to deliver critical technologies to design computers beyond 2020 to keep delivering an exponential computational performance growth, to be orders of magnitude more energy efficient and to deliver predictable response times through parallel processing. Specifically, the project aims at building abstractions to software developers to offload them from resource management issues (Parallelism, Power, Predictability - the three Ps) by innovations in the compiler, runtime system and computer architecture areas.  In collaboration with the other six members of the project team, you are expected to contribute to top-class research towards the vision of the project on any of the following topics.

- Techniques for resource management of heterogeneous multicore systems

- Techniques for power management of heterogeneous multicore systems

- Techniques for predictable parallel processing on heterogeneous multicore systems


Your major responsibilities as PhD student is to further your own doctoral studies. Supported by a supervision team, you are expected to develop and evaluate your own scientific concepts and communicate the results of your research verbally and in writing in English. The position generally also includes teaching on Chalmers' undergraduate or graduate level courses or performing other duties corresponding to 20 per cent of working hours.

Position summary
Full-time temporary employment. The position is limited to a maximum of five years.

Qualifications
To qualify as a PhD student, you must have a master's level degree corresponding to at least 240 higher education credits in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or in a related field and have a solid foundation in computer architecture. You are highly motivated, self-propelled, independent and with a well-developed analytical problem-solving ability. As a person, you are empathetic, loyal and have high ethical standards. Your communication skills in English (literal as well as oral) are of a high quality.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with Ref 20140063 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically via Chalmers webpage.

Application deadline: March 23, 2014

For questions, please contact:
Per Stenstrom, Computer Engineering, pers@chalmers.se, +46-31-772-1761





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