This spring the IBM Diversity Recruiting team invites professors, scientists and qualified university students to participate in a virtual recruiting event for several open positions on the DOME project. DOME is a five-year collaboration between IBM and ASTRON, The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer systems targeted for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA is an international consortium to build the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope. Scientists estimate that the processing power required to operate the telescope will be equal to several millions of today's fastest computers. The project will investigate emerging technologies for large-scale and efficient exascale computing, data transport and storage processes, and streaming analytics that will be required to read, store and analyze all the raw data that will be collected daily. Scientists from both organizations will collaborate at the newly established ASTRON & IBM Center for Exascale Technology in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands. Qualified MS and PhD students must be progressing towards degrees in engineering, science, IT majors, or other research-related majors. http://www.zurich.ibm.com/astron/

1. Help Wanted: Bright Engineers and Scientists
Who Want to Change the World
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4. Dublin
Zurich China
Tokyo
Almaden Haifa
Watson (NY)
Austin India
Brazil Kenya
IBM Research Lab Melbourne
More than 3,000 scientists and $6.3B on R&D in 2012
IBM Research engineers
Collaborations
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5. Behavioral Electrical
Chemistry Computer Science
Science Engineering
Materials Mathematical Physics Service Science
Science Science
Science & Business &
Engineering Management
Technology Business
Innovation Innovation
Social Demand Innovation
Innovation
Social & Economics &
Cognitive Markets
Sciences
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6. - IBM Research - Zurich
Established in 1956
- 45 different nationalities
- Two Nobel Prizes
(1986 and 1987)
- Ultramodern Nanotechnology
Center opened in 2011
- 90 collaborative projects with
universities, industrial
partners and governments
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7. Eras of Computing
Cognitive
Systems Era
Programmable
Systems Era
Tabulating
Systems Era
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Cognitive
Systems Era
Programmable
Systems Era
Tabulating
Systems Era
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11. What Questions Can Be Answered?
• How do galaxies evolve and what is dark energy?
• Was Einstein right? Is his theory the last word in
our understanding of nature’s most fundamental
force?
• What generates the giant magnetic fields in
space?
• How were the first black holes and stars formed?
• Are we alone?
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12. Square Kilometer Array
– Global science and engineering
project to build the world’s largest
radio telescope
– Built in Australia and in Southern
Africa.
– 3,000 dish antennas, each about
15 m in diameter as well as two other
types of radio wave receptor, know as
aperture array antennas.
– Extend to distances of at least 3,000
km from the centre of the core region.
– The target construction cost is €1,5
billion and construction is scheduled
to start in 2017.
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13. Five Year, 32.9M EURO DOME Project Announced on 2 April 2012
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14. Seven Work Packages of DOME
Sustainable (Green) User
Computing Nanophotonics Data & Streaming
Platform
System Analysis
Algorithms & Machines
Computing Transport Storage
-Microservers -Access Patterns
-Nanophotonics
-Phase Change
-Accelerators -Real Time Memory
Communications
-Compressive
Sampling
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16. Dr. Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate
Head of R&D, ASTRON
www.astron.nl
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
ASTRON is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
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17.  ASTRON is located in Dwingeloo in the province of Drenthe. The student city
Groningen is about 30 minutes away: a young city but also a city of talent
with exciting research, innovation and entrepreneurship.
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18. Key figures
• Base budget NWO: 7,5M€
• Acquired in competition: 6,5M€
(scientific, innovation, commercial)
• Various income: 1,0M€
• Staff: 160 FTE: 40% academic, 30%
HBO, 30% Other
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19. Doesn’t happen by magic!
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20. Current “Big Science” Private Public Partnerships
ASTRON and IBM Center of Exascale
Smart Antenna R&D Technology
Total budget ~10M€ Total budget ~29M€
Private investment 600k€ Private investment 5M€ + IP
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22. Dr. Yusik Kim Rik Jongerius
Read this interview: http://bit.ly/rikyusik
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24. Job Openings, Skills and How to Apply
• Open Positions include:
– Post-doctoral researcher on Energy-efficient accelerators for
exascale computing
– Pre-doctoral researcher on accelerator architecture
– Photonic technology R&D engineer
– Research scientist for Algorithms & Machines
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25. • Skills
– Computer Science
– Electrical Engineering
– Hardware Design
• Location: Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
– 150 km from Amsterdam
– Trains available
• How to Apply
– Click “submit my résumé/CV” at www.zurich.ibm.com/astron
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27. – Thanks for Participating
– Audio recording and slides will be available shortly at
www.zurich.ibm.com/astron
– For more details:
• ASTRON: www.astron.nl
• ASTRON and IBM Center for Exascale Technology: www.dome-exascale.nl
• On the science
» www.scribd.com/ibmresearch (whitepaper)
• Job Postings
» www.zurich.ibm.com/astron/jobs.html
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