Working on future generations of many-core processors, this vacancy at the University of Amsterdam in the Computer Systems Architecture (CSA) group is for a paid PhD student, Full time and for a total of four years

The post is funded by the EU project Apple-CORE and promoted by Prof. Jesshope, head of the CSA group and coordinator of that project. This is one of a number of funded projects in this successful group helping to develop the next generation of computer systems, which will surpass the current trend for multi-core chips and bring about a revolution in many core CPUs. CSA is working on both simulators and soft-core prototypes of its microthreaded processor designs and is also working on compilers and operating systems within the Apple-CORE project. The goal is to build many-core chips with thousands, maybe tens of thousands of microthreaded processors, that can execute existing binary code and which will run legacy operating systems. This is a demanding and exciting challenge.

The successful applicant will work on a parallelising compiler in collaboraation with ACE and with a Greek partner in the Apple-CORE project and within a well-motivated team at Amsterdam. He or she will be expected to travel for collaboration and to present results at conferences. It is expected that the appointment will lead to a PhD thesis.
Requirements

A master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Engineering

Ability to operate in an international research team.

Fluency in oral and written English.

For more details concerning the projects and work, please see the CSA and Apple-CORE web sites, read the group’s publications or contact Prof. C.R. Jesshope by email at: jesshope@science.uva.nl.

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