[TYPES/announce] Research Engineer at Monoidics, London, UK

[Dino Distefano]

Monoidics Ltd (www.monoidics.com), a high-tech SME specialising in
automatic formal verification and producer of the INFER static analyzer is looking for

a Research Engineer (3 years) 

to work on the EU Strep project CARP (Correct and Efficient Accelerator Programming), funded by the European Union. Other partners in the project are Imperial College, UK; Realeyes, Estonia; ARM, UK;
RTWH Aachen, Germany; University of Twente, The Netherland; ENS, France and Rightware, Finland.

Within the context of the CARP project, the research engineer will
work on the development of tools and techniques for logic-based
verification/static analysis for accelerator programming.


Qualifications and Skills required:

- PhD degree in Computer Science (or an equivalent qualification). 
- strong programming skills (in particular OCaml, but also C/C++/Java/system programming/embedded)
- good background knowledge of static analysis, verification,
 concurrency, logic, compilers and formal methods.


Starting date: December 1st, 2011, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Location: London, UK

Salary: Competitive


For further information contact:
Dr. Dino Distefano (dino.distefano at monoidics.com)


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About Monoidics:

Monoidics is a high-tech SME specialising in automatic formal
verification and analysis of software.  Founded in the beginning of
2009 by a group of computer scientists from London and Cambridge, Monoidics
designs automatic verification technology for safety critical
industrial software.  Monoidics' mission is to bring verification and
program analysis research to the forefront of industrial practice.
Based in London, Monoidics operates world-wide and has strong links
with key industrial players in safety critical systems in Europe, USA,
and Japan.


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About the CARP project: 

In recent years, massively parallel accelerator processors, primarily
GPUs, have become widely available to end-users. Accelerators offer
tremendous compute power at a low cost, and tasks such as media
processing, simulation, medical imaging and eye-tracking can be
accelerated to beat CPU performance by orders of
magnitude. Performance is gained in energy efficiency and execution
speed, allowing intensive media processing software to run in
low-power consumer devices.

Accelerators present a serious challenge for software developers. A
system may contain one or more of the plethora of accelerators on the
market, with many more products anticipated in the immediate
future. Applications must exhibit portable correctness, operating
correctly on any configuration of accelerators, and portable
performance, exploiting processing power and energy efficiency offered
by a wide range of devices.

The overall aims of CARP are to design techniques and tools for
correct and efficient accelerator programming:

- Novel & attractive methods for constructing system-independent accelerator programs 
- Advanced code generation techniques to produce highly optimised
 system-specific code from system-independent programs
- Scalable static techniques for analysing system-independent and
 system-specific accelerator programs, both qualitatively and
 quantitatively.



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