[HiPEAC-announce] PhD position in Computer Architecture at Chalmers. DEADLINE: April 17, 2009

[Per Stenström]

Chalmers University of Technology announces

a Position for Ph.D. study

in the field of Computer Architecture

at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Application deadline April 17, 2009

The High-Performance Computer Architecture Group is conducting research on
design principles for the next generations of mainstream as well as embedded
high-performance computers. To ease the programming task and yet achieve a
high computational performance at as high energy efficiency as possible are
important objectives in the knowledge generation process that the group
contributes to. To this end, the group has a solid track record in
contributing to design principles of parallel computers and a current focus
is on multi-core computers.

The group participates in the HiPEAC European Network of Excellence as a
partner and in two European projects that focus on multi-core architectures.
A driving theme regards the definition and implementation of new
hardware/software interfaces to ease the task of designing software for
exploiting the computational performance of multi-core computers.

Aim of work

The PhD student shall participate in a project that concerns novel execution
models for multicore computers. Known execution models lead to significant
efforts in rewriting existing software. The project aims at exploring ways
to extract parallelism dynamically so that the parallelism offered by
multicore computers can be exploited. 

Applicants 
shall have a Master’s Degree or corresponding (sw. civilingenjörsexamen) in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or in a
related discipline. As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity
in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills,
orally as well as literally, are needed. Further, since the research work
normally involves developing simulation models of detailed computer
architectures, good programming skills are important. A successful candidate
must have a profound interest in computer architecture and a foundation in
design principles of processors and memory systems.

In order to improve gender balance, Chalmers welcomes in particular
applications from female candidates.

Details about employment 

The appointee must also have been admitted to Chalmers Doctoral Programme.
PhD student positions are limited to five years and will then normally
include 20% departmental work, mostly teaching duties. Admission and
employment are regulated in Chalmers’ “Rules of Procedure for Doctoral
Programmes”, §4 and §5. Salary follows the agreement for PhD student
positions.

Further information
Research level: Professor Per Stenström (http://www.ce.chalmers.se/~pers)
tel. 031-772 1761, e-post: pers at chalmers.se or
Departmental level:, Associate Professor Lars Svensson, 
tel. 031-772 1704, e-post: larssv at chalmers.se 
More information is available at the departmental homepage

Your application
shall consist of a cover letter with the reference number 2009/28 stated, a
complete CV, copies of exam diploma with grades and other documents you wish
to refer to. 

Closing date for the application is April 17, 2009.

The application should preferably be sent by email to:
registrator at chalmers.se or by surface mail to:

Registrator
Chalmers University of Technology 
SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden

Phone via Chalmers exchange: +46 31 772 10 00
Fax registrar: +46 31 772 49 22

Please, don’t send your application to the above mentioned professor or head
of department.

Union representatives
SACO Jan Lindér
ST-ATF Marie Wenander
SEKO Ralf Berndtsson

All reachable via Chalmers exchange: +46 31 772 10 00

 

 

 

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