HPC Engineer (#270)

careers.rst

@@ -206,6 +206,27 @@ They usually have strong skill overlaps with Network Engineers (with so much
 modern storage being network-attached in some manner) and usually have strong
 skills in capacity planning and performance management of infrastructure.
 
+High Performance Computing Engineer
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+High Performance Computing (HPC) involves large scale computing infrastructure,
+which is at the cutting edge of presently available technology, oftentimes making it at TOP500.ORG
+
+Typically, HPC platforms are used for scientific computing, big data, complex models
+and may have applications in fields as diverse as physics, finance, medicine, defence, economics etc.
+for instance: Meteorology and Climate prediction may appear first as a tiny slice of the bigger picture
+yet they tend to be applicable to several aspects of human life and scientific efforts to improve it.
+
+HPC engineers are expected to master an array of high-end technologies in fields such as
+networking (InfiniBand, multi-Gigabit Ethernet), computing (several computer architectures),
+parallel storage/filesystems/filers (Lustre, GPFS, Isilon, NetApp, PanaSAS), as well as
+be able to give advice on a number of software components (gnu/intel/pgi compilers,
+debuggers, mpi stacks, FFTW, linear algebra and other optimized math libraries etc etc).
+
+Most importantly, HPC engineers should be able to interface with other operations engineers,
+each a specialist in their own field, in order to let all systems run both at top performance
+and within the maximum range of their reliability envelope, since HPC downtimes come at a high cost.
+
 .. _how-to-become-an-operations-engineer:
 
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