Job description
From Research Computing
The Assistant Director for Research Computing works under the general supervision of the Vice President for Information Technology and External Programs (formerly the Associate Provost for Instructional Technology), with considerable latitude for independent initiative and judgment.
Responsibilities:
Help design, build, and manage research computing facilities at The Graduate Center, including the research and instructional parallel LINUX clusters and computing facilities for the statistical analysis of large data sets.
Enhance and support research computing services and special purpose programming languages , applications and development tools (such as the PGI parallelizing compilers, MPI libraries, and so on) for research computing applications; e.g., complex computer modeling in fluid dynamics, chemistry and geology, numerical and statistical analysis; optimization, and computational algebra, geometry, logic, linguistics, bioinformatics, discrete and random structures, physics and engineering.
Work with Graduate Center Systems and Client Services staff on research computing development projects (for example, implementing unified Kerberos authenticated logins valid on academic, instructional and research computing facilities).
Keep current on research computing in general, including: distributed computing and GRID technologies; state-of-the-art hardware developments; tools for managing and using clusters (e.g., ganglia for monitoring meta-clusters); scalability issues, benchmarking and tuning; batch systems and job scheduling strategies; key application areas; current practice inside and outside CUNY, etc.
Serve as the CUNY Federation Official Representative to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Collaborate with the research community on various research computing projects, organize joint workshops, colloquia and seminars, and publish conference proceedings and technical reports.
Work in cooperation with CUNY campuses to develop a CUNY wide meta-cluster accessible to researchers in participating CUNY campuses. Inform the research community about research computing facilities at the Graduate Center; solicit suggestions for the development of such facilities.
Seek membership in supercomputing consortia; i.e., groups of universities, research laboratories, funding agencies, and industrial partners that have pooled resources to acquire access to parallel supercomputing facilities and to exchange information and software related to their use.
Prepare presentations for faculty and users; preparation of guides to the facilities; these can be electronic, printed or made available on the research computing web site or both. Recommend relevant content for the research computing web site.
Manage technical staff responsible for the operation and maintenance of research computing facilities. The position also includes supervising appointed "Research Computing Fellows" on relevant research projects and interface with their project heads
