The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for Euro HPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.

If you consider that you do not meet all the requirements, we encourage you to continue applying for the job offer. We value diversity of experiences and skills, and you could bring unique perspectives to our team.

The Computer Sciences (CS) department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center aims at carrying out research and development to influence the way computing machines are built, programmed and used. The Workflows and Distributed Computing group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center aims at carrying out research on programming models for distributed computing. More specifically, this group is contributing to the artificial intelligence activities at BSC and has received grants in the AI4S program.

The group does research around the dislib machine learning library and the programming model Py COMPSs/COMPSs. The dislib (dislib.bsc.es) provides distributed algorithms ready to use as a library solving machine learning methods. The dislib is parallelized with Py COMPSs/COMPSs (compss.bsc.es). Py COMPSs/COMPSs is a task-based programming model that aims at making easier the parallelization of applications and their execution in distributed computing platforms. For this research, the group is looking for a postdoc with knowledge both of machine learning and computer science to contribute to the dislib.

New research activities that are considered are the development of new methods for the dislib, new data structures or extension of existing ones, distribution of training using existing libraries (for example, for Py Torch) and automatic generation of parallel applications with LLMs. The research will consider how these codes perform in the new processor architectures designed at BSC based on RISC-V and vector acceleration.

The researcher will work within a group of around 20 members at different levels of their carrier (from undergraduate students to senior researchers). The group is very active in EU and national projects to which the select candidate would be able to contribute.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
For more information, please check: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s