HPC Specialist: Research Computing & Training Lead

Florida International University; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Florida International University is seeking an HPC Specialist to facilitate researchers’ access to IRCC’s computational resources and to write and optimize submission scripts for IRCC solutions. You will train faculty and students, maintain documentation, and coordinate with government agencies as needed.

The role involves coordinating with IRCC, developing HPC workflows, and participating in HPC projects while staying current with new computing technologies and cluster designs.

Qualifications

• Experience with administration of computational computing clusters including GPU clusters, General HPC clusters, and SMP environments.
• Experience with programming jobs to run on parallel environments. CUDA and Fortran programming expertise.
• Experience with HPC job schedulers, especially job submission is required. Slurm scheduler experience.
• Experience and understanding of parallel filesystems is preferred. Understanding of TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, & LDAP.
• Knowledge of grants.
• Knowledge of HPC and AI clusters and tools.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the liaison between faculty, students and the Instructional & Research Computing Center’s (IRCC) technical staff.
• Promotes computational computing capabilities of the IRCC to faculty, builds relationships and creates collaborative opportunities between faculty, academic departments and the IRCC.
• Creates lesson plans and conducts workshops on High Performance Computing (HPC) programming, HPC data management, HPC schedulers and other HPC related topics as the need arises.
• Administers HPC environment to help teach and answer faculty and students questions related to the IRCC’s computational resources; participates in daily administration duties and acts as backup administrator.
• Researches grant opportunities directly for the IRCC or in collaboration with faculty and academic departments.
• Keeps abreast of the latest computational technologies.
• Participates in IRCC projects and cross-trains co-workers as needed.
• Participates in SSerca and ACCESS meetings and Super Computing Conferences, including assisting with booth management.
• Assists in development of IRCC procedures and processes.

Skills

HPC clusters administration

CUDA/Fortran programming

Slurm/job schedulers

Linux (CentOS)

Parallel filesystems

TCP/IP/DHCP/DNS/LDAP knowledge

Grants knowledge

HPC/AI tools

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or computational science

6 years of experience in a related field

1 year of computational computing experience

Tools

GPU clusters

General HPC clusters

SMP environments

Job description

Florida International University is seeking an HPC Specialist to facilitate researchers’ access to IRCC’s computational resources and to write and optimize submission scripts for IRCC solutions. You will train faculty and students, maintain documentation, and coordinate with government agencies as needed.

The role involves coordinating with IRCC, developing HPC workflows, and participating in HPC projects while staying current with new computing technologies and cluster designs.