Performance Researcher (Multiple Positions)

Explore the performance of next generation supercomputer using hardware-software codesign

The Compute System Architecture Unit (CSA) at imec is researching next-generation large-scale heterogeneous computer architectures for next-generation HPC and AI applications, such as real-time digital twins and accessible personalized medicine. The team is responsible for algorithm research, runtime management innovations, performance modeling, architecture simulation and prototyping for these future applications and the future systems to execute them, to reach multiple orders of magnitude better performance, energy-efficiency, and total-cost-of-ownership.   

We are looking for performance researchers to contribute hands-on to the performance analysis of future supercomputer systems. You will navigate how applications execute efficiently on hardware, across multiple abstraction layers. In close collaboration with algorithm researchers, system architects, and microarchitecture designers, you will help to define the supercomputers of the future. 

You will work on: 

• Simulating large-scale future systems and analyzing the performance and energy usage of applications, identifying bottlenecks and proposing optimizations. 
• Profiling workloads to understand their intrinsic behavior with respect to computation, communication, and memory requirements 
• Developing analytical models that estimate performance and power for early design space exploration.