Possible postdoc position in ABM

[Andy Cleary]

I am soliciting resumes for a position that I hope to have open soon (IOW, 
it is likely that it will open, but the bureaucratic wheels have not 
blessed this position as officially open yet) that might be appropriate to 
readers of this list.

The "Scalable Entity-based Simulation" project in the Center for Applied 
Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL) is a 
new project (October 2002) with a goal of developing methodology and 
software for modeling very large systems of "entities", which are loosely 
"simple agents". Some typical applications might be microbial communities, 
infectious disease spread in human or animal populations, or immune 
systems, all of which have millions and perhaps orders of magnitude more 
agents, though the agents themselves are not very complicated (exactly 
where we draw these lines is not set in stone by any means; our goal is to 
serve the lab and DOE as a computational resource, so our focus will evolve 
to match those needs). We are targeting the variety of parallel 
supercomputers here at LLNL, including future machines such as ASCI Purple 
and BlueGene/Light, so parallelism is an important aspect of our project.

The project is small now (4 people approximately halftime) but is expected 
to grow rapidly. My ideal candidate is a postdoc, though there may be some 
chance of amending that for the right candidate. In general, I am looking 
for talent more than a specific skillset, though for this postdoc I want 
someone with ABM experience, preferably both in modeling and in development 
of ABM infrastructure, and I definitely want someone who is proficient in 
developing OO software. Parallel experience is a plus but not a requirement.

Please contact me if you are interested, and feel free to pass this on to 
colleagues, though note again the disclaimer that this is not yet a formal 
call for applications (labs can be picky on these points).

Best,
Andy Cleary

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Andrew J. Cleary, Software Engineer/Computational Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Labs, 925-424-5890.
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