Exascale Plasma PIC HPC Research Fellow

CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research; France; On-site; EUR 23,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

The CNRS - Laboratoire plasma et conversion d'énergie in France is recruiting for an engineering physics researcher to work on the MATURATION ANR project. The role involves porting a 3D sparse-PIC code to exascale, optimizing CPU algorithms, enabling GPU porting, and exploring performance-portable programming models such as Kokkos or StarPU.

You will collaborate with project partners, share best software engineering practices, and publish study results while ensuring code handover to the

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or PhD in computer science or physics with HPC.
• Experience in Fortran, C or C++ programming for HPC.
• Experience in high-performance computing and parallel programming, in particular GPU.
• A good knowledge of English and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Exascale porting of 3D sparse-PIC code with distributed parallelism and GPU porting.
• Investigate new programming models for performance portability (Kokkos/StarPU).
• Analyze code performance on recent CPU/GPU architectures.
• Enhance software engineering practices for the codebase.
• Publish results of the study.
• Hand over code handling to supervisory team.

Skills

Fortran

C

C++

High-Performance Computing

Parallel programming

GPU

Education

Engineering degree / PhD in computer science or physics with high-performance computing

Tools

Kokkos

StarPU

Job description

The CNRS - Laboratoire plasma et conversion d'énergie in France is recruiting for an engineering physics researcher to work on the MATURATION ANR project. The role involves porting a 3D sparse-PIC code to exascale, optimizing CPU algorithms, enabling GPU porting, and exploring performance-portable programming models such as Kokkos or StarPU.

You will collaborate with project partners, share best software engineering practices, and publish study results while ensuring code handover to the