Job Reference
556_25_CASE_PNM_R2
Position
OpenACC porting of Alya (R2)
Closing Date
Monday, 08 September, 2025
Reference:
556_25_CASE_PNM_R2
Job title:
OpenACC porting of Alya (R2)
About BSC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.
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Context And Mission
Supercomputers are indispensable tools for solving the most challenging and complex scientific and technological problems through simulations. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, PRACE, has been a unique persistent pan-European Research Infrastructure for High Performance Computing (HPC) and forms the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. BSC has been one of the core partners of PRACE providing a tier-0 system like MareNostrum4 to the PRACE computing resources. BSC is now involved in EuroHPC and will soon host Marenostrum5, a pre-exascale heterogeneous cluster.
The mission revolves around Alya, a high-performance computational mechanics code developed within the CASE department to solve complex coupled multiphysics/multi-scale/multi-domain problems, which are mostly coming from the engineering realm. Among the different physics solved by Alya, we can mention incompressible/compressible flows, non-linear solid mechanics, chemistry, particle transport, heat