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Submissions due May 1 for HPC PhD Fellowship Program

John West — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:01:42 +0000

Just a quick reminder that submissions for the SC10 George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Program are due on May 1, 2010.

This is the program created by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society and the SC Conference series that sponsors up to three fellowship recipients each year. Recipients receive a stipend of at least $5,000 (U.S.) for one academic year, plus travel support to attend the SC conference.

Submissions are due by Friday, May 1 and must be submitted using the SC10 submissions site.

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SC10 HPC Fellowship deadline approaches

John West — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:45:56 +0000

News out of SC10 that those interested and eligible have only three weeks left to apply for the SC10 George Michael Memorial HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program

The SC10 George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Program is accepting applications until May 1, 2010. The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society and SC Conference series have established the High Performance Computing (HPC) Ph.D. Fellowship Program to help address the important issue of training the next generation of HPC scientists and engineers. Every year, fellowship recipients will each receive a stipend of at least $5,000 (U.S.) for one academic year, plus travel support to attend the SC conference.

Speaking of eligibility, applicants have to be in Ph.D. programs at accredited schools, be at least one year along in their programs, and be carrying a letter of recommendation by a full-time faculty member at a Ph.D. granting institution.

More in the release, including information on how to apply. You can also head to the Fellowship page directly.

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Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years

John West — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:00:09 +0000

Bill Bell at NCSA tweeted a note about Google’s new scholarship for first year computer scientists

Dr. Anita Borg devoted her adult life to revolutionizing the way we think about technology and dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. Her combination of technical expertise and fearless vision continues to inspire and motivate countless women to become active participants and leaders in creating technology.

…As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to furthering Anita’s vision, we are launching a new scholarship, the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years. Google hopes to encourage aspiring female computer scientists to excel in technology and become active role models and leaders in the field by offering scholarship opportunities for incoming first years in computer science.

Recipients will each receive $10,000 in the 2010-2011 academic year and must meet the following criteria

Intend to be enrolled in or accepted as a full-time student at a university in the U.S. for the 2010–2011 academic year. International students are eligible to apply as long as they intend to be enrolled at a local university
Intend to be enrolled in or accepted for enrollment in a baccalaureate Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related program
Able to demonstrate a commitment to and passion for computer science and technology

Deadline is coming up: Monday, February 15, 2010.

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HPC Postdocs available

John West — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:00:24 +0000

From Will Baird’s blog, news of NERSC’s HPC post doc positions

Berkeley Lab anticipates several openings for post-doctoral fellows in the NERSC Division to address the challenges of petascale computing on new multicore architectures. The fellows will work with high-profile applications in the areas of bioscience, fusion, climate and material science as well as in the development of scalable algorithms and novel language implementations for modern petascale systems. The fellows will have access to leading edge computational platforms as well as prototypes of experimental systems and close interaction with DOE Office of Science Principal Investigators who are receiving significant allocations of high-end computer time under the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge. Interaction with faculty and students of the University of California, Berkeley and other major research universities is available depending on the specific project. The fellows will have the opportunity to gain experience in the NERSC production environment facility and practical knowledge of the skills necessary for deployment of large-scale multi-user hardware and software.

Apply at LBNL’s jobs web site.

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Applications invited for Computing Innovation Fellows Project

John West — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:32:00 +0000

The Computing Computing Consortium has announced a new fellowship opportunity for new PhD graduates

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with funding from the National Science Foundation, are pleased to announce an opportunity for new PhD graduates in computer science and closely related fields to obtain one-to-two year positions at host organizations including universities, industrial research laboratories, and other organizations that advance the field of computing and its positive impact on society.

The Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Project will fund as many as 60 such positions. Applications are due very soon: June 9, 2009. Awards are expected to be announced by July 10. Positions will commence in Autumn 2009.

If you are a new PhD interested in learning more, head over to http://cifellows.org to get the details. You’ll want to hurry: the deadline is June 9. They are also looking for organizations interested in hosting CI Fellows.

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NVIDIA graduate fellowships in visual computing

John West — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:06:47 +0000

Late last week NVIDIA announced that it is funding 10 new graduate fellowships to study the use of GPUs in computing under its 8-year old fellowship program

More than 200 applicants were considered for the award, which comes with grants of $25,000 for each recipient, according to NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally, who headed the committee which selected the award recipients. The projects being sponsored cover a wide range of technical areas, including computer vision, neuroscience, and quantum chemistry simulation on GPUs.

“The NVIDIA Fellowship Program recognizes and supports excellence in GPU computing research in universities worldwide,” Dally said. “It facilitates outstanding research and builds relationships between NVIDIA and the academic community.”

Recipients of the 2009 NVIDIA Fellowship Program include:

Anjul Patney, University of California, Davis

Bryan Catanzaro, University of California, Berkeley

Erik Sintorn, Chalmers University of Technology

Gregory Diamos, Georgia Institute of Technology

Huy T. Vo, University of Utah

Ivan Ufimtsev, Stanford University

Jiayuan Meng, University of Virginia

Nicolas Pinto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rahul Garg, University of Washington

Yen-Tzu Lin, Carnegie Mellon University

Congratulations to these young researchers. I think that investments like these by NVIDIA and others are smart. They get to give back to the community while at the same time sparking new research that pushes the boundaries of what people can do with their gear. I don’t think efforts like these would ever save failing technologies (unless they just got lucky and happened upon a totally new application domain), but I do think they contribute to the vitality of otherwise healthy technologies.

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Work with NCSA in the Google Summer of Code

John West — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:00:53 +0000

The optics on this are great: marry an HPTC research organization with the cool hip chic-ness of Google. From the release

NCSA has been selected as a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code 2009 and is looking for students to participate. Summer of Code offers student developers stipends of up to $4,500 to write code for various open-source projects. Students apply through Google, and applications are due April 3, 2009.

NCSA evidently did this last year as well. Great idea.

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Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science deadline approaching

John West — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:50:25 +0000

We’ve covered this before, but want to remind you that the deadline for 2009 is coming up next month.

The scientific staff at Berkeley Lab recognize the increasing significance of computational science—and the need to help educate the next generation of computational scientists.

The Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science aims to achieve these goals by enabling a recent graduate with a Ph.D. (or equivalent) to acquire further scientific training and to develop professional maturity for independent research. Applicants must be a recent graduate (within the past three years) with a strong emphasis on computing or computational science. The successful applicant will be compensated with a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Applications are due by December 2, 2008 for the fall 2009 semester. More info here.

Do you know about a fellowship or scholarship that’s in HPC or a related discipline and not already in our database? Email me with the details and I’ll add it.

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NVIDIA Announces 2009-2010 Fellowship Program

John Leidel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:52:48 +0000

NVIDIA has announced that it has begun accepting applications for the NVIDIA Fellowship Program for the 2009-2010 academic year. The program is slated to provide 65 PhD studetns with funding. These students must be researching topics that will lead to major advances in the graphics and high performance computing industries. In addition to the financial benefits, the recipients will have access to NVIDIA products, technology and engineering insight.

Dr. David Kirk, Chief Scientist at NVIDIA, stated: “The NVIDIA Fellowship Program is designed to stimulate and support excellence in visual and parallel computing research in universities worldwide, and to promote communication between NVIDIA’s R&D team and outstanding students and professors. Since its inception in 2002, the Program has awarded over $1.6 million in funding to assist 65 Ph.D. students with their research.”

For more info on the fellowship program, check out their website here.

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Argonne postdocs: deadline Nov 5

John West — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:41:51 +0000

Ian Foster posted over at his blog last week about postdocs available at Argonne National Lab

The Argonne Named Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a great opportunity for a recent or imminent PhD looking to work at the cutting edge of computing. You also get a fancy title, like “Arthur Holly Compton Fellow” or similar. (There are a few to choose from.)

More info in Ian’s post linked above, and here. Deadline is November 5.

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High Performance Computing Ph.D. Fellowship Applications due 9/8

John West — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:27 +0000

I’m told the deadline on these is hard: absolutely no exceptions.

The ACM/IEEE Computer Society High Performance Computing (HPC) Ph.D. Fellowship Program is now accepting nominations for its second annual competition at https://submissions.supercomputing.org. The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 8, 2008.

ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded with a certificate and a stipend of at least $5,000 (US) for one academic year. All ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellows are invited to attend at least one SC conference (usually the one after one year of receiving the award). Furthermore, the SC Steering Committee and other conference volunteers are willing to facilitate, where possible, internships for Fellows at HPC research or development sites.

Students must be nominated by a full time faculty member at a Ph.D. granting institution. Nominees must be enrolled in a full-time Ph.D. program and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination.

For more information about the program, see the web page or contact the committee at hpc-fellowship-questions@acm.org.

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SC HPC PhD fellowship submissions open

John West — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:14:05 +0000

If you’re into HPC and enrolled as a fulltime PhD student who has completed at least one year of your program, this is the announcement for you

The ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout the world with the focus areas of HPC, Networking, Storage and Analysis. HPC covers the areas of computational sciences, computational engineering, and computer science using the most powerful computers available at a given time. The ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program also supports the sponsors’ long-standing commitment to workforce diversity and encourages nominations of women, minorities and all who contribute to diversity.

ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded with a certificate and a stipend of at least $5,000 (US) for one academic year. All ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellows are invited to attend at least one SC conference (usually the one after one year of receiving the award). Furthermore, the SC Steering Committee and other conference volunteers are willing to facilitate, where possible, internships for Fellows at HPC research or development sites.

Deadline for application is September 8, 2008.

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Center for Computational Geosciences Postdocs

John West — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:35:12 +0000

Postdoctoral positions at ICES, Univ of Texas at Austin

I have several immediate openings for postdoctoral researchers within the Center for Computational Geosciences at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (www.ices.utexas.edu), University of Texas at Austin. The positions involve research on large-scale inverse problems in the geosciences, specifically in seismology, mantle convection, subsurface flow, and ocean dynamics. Research issues include the quantification of uncertainty in inverse problems, scalable algorithms, and parallel adaptivity.

The research will be conducted jointly with collaborators from ICES, the Jackson School of Geosciences, and several other universities and national labs, and will make use of Ranger, a .5 Petaflop supercomputer that is being deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Candidates should have a strong background in scientific computing, numerical analysis, and PDE solvers. Background in finite elements, inverse problems, continuum mechanics, optimization, and geosciences is desirable. Experience in large-scale parallel code development is essential.

To apply, please send your CV (listing courses taken and at least two references) to me at omar@ices.utexas.edu.

-Omar Ghattas http://www.ices.utexas.edu/~omar

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Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group Postdoc

John West — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:52:17 +0000

The Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group is seeking to hire, as soon as possible, a postgraduate scientist to work on development and support of software infrastructure enabling LIGO data analysis efforts.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is an ambitious National Science Foundation funded project to detect gravitational waves and use them to explore the Universe. Members of the Syracuse group play an important role in the search for inspiral and burst sources of gravitational waves through their membership of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. The Syracuse group is constructing a 300 CPU core computing cluster with 96Tb of storage for gravitational wave and grid computing research, and is expanding its involvement with scientific computational infrastructure.

The successful candidate will work on design, development, deployment, and support of software infrastructure to further the scientific goals of the LIGO project. They will have a close connection with scientists conducting gravitational-wave data analysis and will have the opportunity make important contributions to the search for gravitational waves with LIGO. An incomplete list of projects includes tools for scientific data management, workflow management, metadata driven workflow planning, and other areas of grid and distributed computing in support of science.

Applications should have a Ph.D. or Masters degree in physics, information science, or a related field, excellent computer skills, extensive experience with Linux, C programming skills, a working knowledge of popular scripting languages including Python, and be highly motivated. Experience with the relational databases and/or Condor is a plus, but not essential. The successful candidate should be prepared to start February 1, 2008, although some flexibility of this date is possible.

Applicants should send a cover letter, a statement of research interests, and a curriculum vitae, and arrange to have at least three letters of recommendation sent via email to:

dabrown@physics.syr.edu

or via regular mail to:

Prof. Duncan Brown,
Department of Physics,
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY 13244, USA

Applications should be marked “LIGO Data Grid Position.”

Screening of applications will begin December 1, 2007 and will continue until the position is filled. Syracuse University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Members of minority groups and women are especially encouraged to apply.

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ACM/IEEE-CS High Performance Computing PhD Fellowship

John West — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:28:42 +0000

Based on a proposal from the SC conference Steering Committee, the ACM and IEEE Computer Society established a fellowship fund for worthy students who are studying topics in High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Funded by the surplus of SC|05, this fellowship is sufficiently endowed to fund at least $20,000 per year.

The Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout the world with the focus areas of High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Fellowships are awarded a certificate and a stipend of at least $5,000 (US) for one academic year. The SC Steering Committee and other conference volunteers are willing to facilitate, where possible, internships for Fellows at HPC research or development sites. Interns are paid by their host site and will be subject to the prevailing terms and conditions of the internship program at that site. ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded annually but previous awardees may compete annually to be renewed for up to two additional years (three total), based on the Award Recipient’s continued exceptional academic standing, progress, achievement, and sustained interaction with the HPC technical community.

Students must be nominated by a full time faculty member at a PhD granting, accredited institution. They must be enrolled in a full-time Ph. D program at an accredited college or university, and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination.

For full details and the application, check out the Fellowship website.

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Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science

John West — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:23:26 +0000

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Computational Research Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sponsor the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science.

This fellowship allows recent graduates with a Ph.D. (or equivalent) to acquire further scientific training at one of the leading facilities for scientific computing and to develop professional maturity for independent research.

Applicants must be a recent graduate (within the past three years) with a strong emphasis on computing or computational science. The successful applicant will be compensated with a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Applications are due by January 11, 2008 for Fall 2008.

Application Instructions for 2008:

To apply, please submit in a single attachment (1) your curriculum vitae, (2) a statement of research interests, and (3) a list of three references. Go to http://jobs.lbl.gov to apply online, select “Search Jobs,” and enter job number 21111 in the keyword search field. Once you have located the position, click “Apply Now” and follow the online instructions to complete the application process.

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Charlie Bender Scholarship

John West — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:19:55 +0000

In late 2007 the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) announced the creation of a scholarship in memory of Dr. Charlie Bender, the founding chairperson of CASC.

The scholarship is expected to fund one to two computational chemistry students per year to attend SCxy, the US-based annual conference of the high performance computing community.

The first award is expected in 2008. Details have yet to be released, but those interested can check out the proposal online.

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Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. Graduate Fellowship

John West — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:01:27 +0000

Cray endowed the Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. Graduate Fellowship Fund with a $150,000 gift. The is designed to provide support to graduate students at Rice University with a preference given to those involved in high-performance computing.

I can’t find a link to information on the fellowship at Rice yet (possibly because the program is so new). I’ll add it as soon as its available; in the meantime, I suggest you contact the George R. Brown School of Engineering for more information.

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