The Decision and Information Sciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory has an immediate opening for a Postdoctoral Appointee who will work on the Exascale Agent-based Modeling System Project to develop a next generation agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) system explicitly focusing on exascale computing platforms. The candidate will develop, research, and apply extremely large-scale parallel and distributed simulation framework software and demonstration applications, distributed computing algorithms with a particular focus on simulation time scheduling algorithms and simulation data storage algorithms, compose journal articles and deliver conference papers for sponsor and professional peer groups. The successful candidate will have considerable knowledge in parallel and distributed software development and good knowledge of agent-based modeling and simulation. The candidate must have a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in high performance computing. Interested candidates should send a detailed CV, along with a list of publications, and the names and addresses of three references through the Argonne web site at http://www.anl.gov/jobs under job search for postdoctoral/job openings, for requisition number 312772 DIS. A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC. Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce.

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