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.

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The Computer Sciences (CS) department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center aims to carry 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 performs research on programming models for distributed computing. More specifically, this group is contributing to the DT-GEO project (https://dtgeo.eu/), which aims to develop a prototype for a digital twin on geophysical extremes, including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and anthropogenic-induced extreme events. Many of the DTC components are developed with COMPSs, and the automatic recording of metadata related to an experiment is enabled with the workflow provenance mechanism of COMPSs.

COMPSs (compss.bsc.es) is a task-based programming model that enables the parallel execution of applications in distributed computing environments. For this research, the group is looking for an engineer to design and implement the required extensions to the workflow provenance mechanism of the COMPSs runtime and the improvement of its related services.

Workflow provenance is the ability to record metadata from a computational experiment run as a workflow. In COMPSs, this is done in an interoperable format to enable the interaction with tools following the same metadata format. Workflow provenance metadata is useful for: reproducibility of experiments, FAIR workflows, knowledge extraction and traceability/explainability of results, among others.