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Subject: PostDoc opening: EDF/Lille University

From: P=E4r Olsson

Date: 20-Mar-2008 15:42

Message:

Post Doc position opening in the framework of the French Research Concil= (ANR) project « Parallelization for the simulation of Materials &raq= uo;:

Project scope:
The power of today’s computers makes it possible to realize simulatio= ns based on a hierarchy of models in order to predict the aging of material= s in various environments and describing phenomena from the atomic to the m= acroscopic scale. The issue of the present project concerns the evolution o= f the mechanical properties of irradiated materials, such as the structural= materials of nuclear power plants. The concepts and the numerical tools ar= e, however, somewhat generic. In practice, simulations at different scales = are chained, from the finest to the coarsest. To obtain reliable quantitati= ve predictions on real materials, a gain of several orders of magnitude is = required, regarding the size of the simulated systems as well as the execut= ion speed. The global purpose of the ANR-project «Parallelization for= the simulation of Materials» (ParMat) is to increase significantly t= he power of the software at three consecutive scales (ab initio computation= s on an atomic scale, kinetic Monte Carlo based computations and computatio= ns based on a mean field model towards microscopic scales).

The overall scope of the project consists in removing the bottlenecks appea= ring in the parallelization of those codes, in order to reach satisfactory = scalability. Depending on the codes, new algorithms introducing parallelism= at the highest level will be developed and tested on massively parallel ma= chines with up to 32000 processors, with computations on petaflopic machine= s within view.

Position: the present position regards the parallelization and optimisation= of the kinetic Monte Carlo code LAKIMOCA developed at EDF and the Universi= ty of Lille. This code is dedicated to the modeling of radiation damage in = metallic alloys.

The work required is:

1/ to analyse the different methods published in the literature for the par= allelization and optimisation of kinetic Monte Carlo codes and assess the p= ossibility of adapting these methods to the parallelization of LAKIMOCA and= to the study of radiation damage.

2/ the implementation of the most well adapted method to the use of LAKIMOC= A on massively parallel machines, such as the IBM Blue Gene.

The initial duration of the post doc project is one year.
The possibility of continuation/extension can be discussed.
This work will be done in very close collaboration between EDF (located clo= se to Fontainebleau, south of Paris) and the Laboratoire de Métallur= gie Physique et Genie des Matériaux from Lille University.

Required skills:
Good knowledge in physics or metallurgy, very good knowledge of c programmi= ng and parallelisation techniques.

Starting date: as soon as possible

Net salary: 2039 euros per month.

Contacts:
Christophe Domain
EDF R&D
Dpt MMC Matériaux et Mécanique des Composants
Les Renardieres
F-77250 Moret sur Loing
tel: +33 1 60 73 60 44
email: christophe.domain-at-gmail.com , christophe.domain-at-edf.fr

Charlotte Becquart
Université de Lille 1
Laboratoire de Metallurgie Physique et Genie des Materiaux
UMR 8517
F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex
tel: +33 3 20 43 49 44
email: charlotte.becquart-at-univ-lille1.fr

Pär Olsson
EDF R&D
Dpt MMC Matériaux et Mécanique des Composants
Les Renardieres
F-77250 Moret sur Loing
tel: +33 1 60 73 65 89
email: olsson.par-at-gmail.com, par.olsson-at-edf.fr

 




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