Need Unix Consultant with 5 years experience in a large scale HPC/Scientific administration environment. SURE SHOT CLOSURE ROLE FOR THE RIGHT RESUME

5 years experience in a large scale HPC/Scientific administration environment.

St. Louis, 12 months,

50/hr on C2C

 

Engineering team as a Senior UNIX / Linux Administrator.   The scope of this role includes designing, implementing and administering high performance computing cluster, performing proof of concepts on parallel file system (GPFS, IBRIX, Luster) and implementing solution that meets business requirements. This position requires a high degree of teamwork.  Ideal candidate will have a strong technical aptitude, ability to work closely with scientists on tuning their code on compute farm and strong background in HPC.  They will need to be an energetic, self motivated individual who enjoys working in a collaborative team environment. Candidate should be fully versed in Linux flavors, Grid Engine or other HPC clusters as well as interconnects such as Infiniband.

Skills: 
* A minimum of 5 years experience in a large scale HPC/Scientific administration environment. 
* Experience in supporting 500+ cpu cluster with Sun Grid Engine or other HPC cluster along with parallel file systems such as GPFS, Lustre and interconnects is desired.
* Experience in solving the performance and scalability issues involving Clustered file systems, Hierarchical Storage Systems and IO interconnects such as Infiniband. 
* Understanding of mathematical libraries and various algorithms. 
* Should have experience on application profiling, debugging and performance tuning on large scale HPC applications. 


Roles & Responsibilities: 
* Understanding the current HPC infrastructure including file system and storage sub systems. 
* Design and implement next generation compute cluster that can analyze biotech sequencing data.

* Work with scientists to tune code to optimize in next generation HPC cluster.
* Understanding the business and technical drivers for the current infrastructure selection and current issues/concerns. 
* Deployment of file system and storage solution on emerging multi-core HPC infrastructure. 
* Understanding the HPC performance bottlenecks and implementing the performance improvements.

* Will need to participate in on call rotation. Must be willing to carry on-call pager/cell-phone during rotation.

Sareen Bhaskaran
Resource Manager
Prosoft Cyberworld Group
630-371-0530 ext 145
sareen@prosoftcyberworld.com

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