Jobs

We’re making some changes at insideHPC to serve our reader better. As part of this effort, we’re going to start posting HPC Jobs here.

Look for an announcement here in the coming weeks, but for now, here are some of the listings we’ve stumbled across:

March 11, 2011 Jobs: Amazon, Clustercorp, Hunch, IDS, J.A.W., Luxtera, Netflix, Rackspace, Sandia, Whamcloud, and even Charlie Sheen are all hiring.

March 4, 2011 Jobs: Tech companies continued to post jobs for techies this week including Cloudant, Firestorm, Rapid Bridge and the Google in Chapel Hill. Find more at the Data Center Knowledge Job Board.

Even more Jobs! Fresh off news of great financial results of their own, NVIDIA is seeking product managers, technical marketing managers, product marketers, and CUDA developers for the Tesla GPU computing business. Check out http://careers.nvidia.com (search on “CUDA”). Netflix is hiring as well.

Internships! The Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program is seeking both faculty and undergraduate students to participate in a year-long internship/mentoring program. This is a paid gig. Many more internship postings are available at HPC University.

Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs

In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system there are many items to consider, such as assessing the new environment’s required components, implementing a pilot program to learn about the system’s future performance, and considering eventual scaling to production levels.