About MACC

The Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC) is a sustainable supercomputing and bigdata infrastructure catering to national scientific and industrial communities and complementary to international partners.

MACC was created in 2017 by the Portuguese Government through FCT, INCoDE.2030 and University of Minho as a national collaborative infrastructure to promote and support Open Science initiatives on advanced computing, data science and visualization. 

MACC is also central to the Portuguese and Spanish joint strategy to build the “Iberian Advanced Computing Network”, which has been promoted by the two Governments and through the coordination of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).

Mission

MACC aims at promoting scientific breakthroughs and industrial innovation by opening High-Performance Computing to research communities across the entire spectrum of disciplines.

To achieve its mission, MACC conducts five instrumental activities:

Research and innovation in supercomputing: To support and encourage research on topics central to implementing, optimizing, and exploiting computing performance. 

Training and skills development: To enable and encourage human resources training in the design, deployment, and operation of supercomputing centers. Also, to promote the use and development of supercomputing software. 

R&D in Computational Engineering, Computational Sciences and Computational Intelligence: To promote the creation, expansion, and consolidation of research and innovation centers in different scientific domains where the use of an ample computation power or data processing capacity is crucial, namely in the areas of digital simulation, data science, machine learning, and AI. Adequate infrastructure for managing and processing large volumes of data, reliability and offering software platforms and services that facilitate its use will boost R&D in different scientific domains and industries. 

Public service and enterprises: To offer advanced HPC computing resources (in terms of hardware, software, and consultancy) to science and higher education institutions and public administration for the curation, management, and processing of data and, to enterprises, for the use and development of applications, namely with the help of Big Data and machine learning workloads, promoting their use by enterprises including emerging companies that result from academic entrepreneurship. 

Internationalization: Participate in international scientific advanced computing networks. 

Join Us

Being part of the MACC team means that you will get to:

Immerse yourself in a highly dynamic, professional and challenging work environment; engage with leading academic and industrial partners in Portugal and abroad to advance HPC and its use by research and innovation communities; evolve professionally and raise your profile in the international HPC community. live in Braga, a city in the North of Portugal where traditions coexist with a modern and urban tech lifestyle. 


Currently, MACC is offering the following position:

Junior System Administrator Specialist (TRU 23)

Candidate profile: Bachelor's and/or Master's degree (preferred) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.

Requirements and preferred factors:

  • Technical foundation: Basic knowledge of fundamental system administration concepts. Familiarity with Linux/Unix operating systems (redhat-based);

  • Scripting skills: Basic level proficiency in scripting languages such as BASH, Python or PowerShell;

  • Expertise in: IP network management, configuration and maintenance; NFS, LDAP, SQL;

  • Troubleshooting and support: Willingness to learn and contribute to the timely resolution of technical problems; Ability to provide basic technical support to end users and help resolve problems;

  • Basic knowledge of HPC: Knowledge of the principles and concepts of high performance computing (HPC);

  • Communication skills: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both written and verbal; Willingness to collaborate with team members and end users;

  • Learning and adaptability: Enthusiastic about continuous learning and adapting to changing technologies; Open to training and development opportunities;

  • Documentation: Basic documentation skills to keep records of system configurations and troubleshooting steps;

  • Team collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively with senior system administrators and other team members;

  • Raising awareness of safety: Awareness of best security practices and commitment to maintaining system integrity;

  • Project assistance: Willingness to collaborate on various projects and tasks under the guidance of senior team members;

    More information here.

Contact

Do you want to be part of the MACC team? Then send us your short bio with a brief description of the work/research you would be most interested in undertaking.