HPC Scientific Programmer

NIWA is a leading environmental research institute and key provider of atmospheric, freshwater and marine research and consultancy services in New Zealand.

In early 2010 NIWA will install a new IBM p575/p6 HPC. This system will start at 56 nodes and is expected to increase to 108 nodes in 2011/12. The new High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) will primarily be used to support NIWA’s research activities in climate, weather, sea state, ocean and sea level modelling and forecasting, and to support an operational environmental forecasting system – EcoConnect.

NIWA are seeking a Scientific Programmer who can provide support to both NIWA and external science users of the new HPCF. This is a new position at NIWA and will provide the successful appointee with opportunities to work on a leading edge HPC in an institution that is focused on improving our understanding of the environment at temporal scales ranging from hours to decades into the future.

Applicants should have at least ten years’ of advanced Fortran (77, 90, 95, 2003) programming experience, with demonstrated skills in the development and application of advanced algorithms on parallel HPC systems, and of supporting/mentoring science end-users. Experience in the management of large Fortran and multi-language software code bases and of MPI and/or OpenMP programming methods would be advantageous.

You can read more about NIWA’s new HPC Facility on their website via http://bit.ly/IDLOe.

For further information about NIWA, a full position description, and online applications, please visit www.careers.niwa.co.nz