What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) position at unm?
The University of New Mexico (UNM) seeks a dynamic, innovative,
results-oriented, and proven leader for the position of Director of the
Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), one of UNM’s premier
strategic research centers. The selected candidate will report directly to the
Vice President for Research (VPR) and will be open rank determined by the individual’s academic background.
CARC is an internationally recognized center of
excellence in advanced computing systems with a long history of research,
innovation, and service in computing systems and computational science. The
center’s mission is to facilitate cross-disciplinary computational research at
UNM and nation-wide by leading multi-disciplinary research and educational
initiatives and by providing advanced computing services to the University
community. CARC supported research at UNM includes faculty, staff, and students
from many departments, colleges, research centers, and campuses, including the
School of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Fine
Arts, the Quantum New Mexico Institute, and the UNM Health Sciences Center.
CARC also actively collaborates with faculty and staff across campus and at
Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories in educational initiatives to train
the next generation of computational experts through programs such as the
University’s Computational Science and Engineering graduate certificate
program.
To
facilitate and execute research and superb educational opportunities in advanced
research computing, CARC supports high performance and data intensive computing
facilities used by the entire UNM community[GT1] .
These resources, managed directly by CARC staff, include multiple compute
clusters that include state-of-the-art GPU resources, dedicated enterprise and
high-performance storage systems, high-speed networking systems, and a wide
range of software packages for use by the community of UNM researchers,
including traditional scientific computing applications, state-of-the-art data
analytics and machine learning systems. These systems are housed in CARC's
dedicated research data center with multiple UPS systems and cooling systems;
UNM is also in the process of upgrading these facilities to support additional
computing systems to support emerging research in AI and quantum computing. For
a full description of CARC and its activities, please visit http://carc.unm.edu.
The University of New Mexico is classified as a
Carnegie Doctoral/Research R1 University-Very High Research Activity. UNM's fifteen
colleges and schools serve a large student population of over 28,000 at its
main campus in Albuquerque. UNM provides an excellent environment for
research-university education with experiential learning and training and produces
highly trained researchers to our nation.
The successful candidate will:
- Prepare and implement a strategic vision and plan for CARC
- Enhance CARC’s portfolio of external funding by facilitating and catalyzing interdisciplinary computational research by UNM faculty and the acquisition of grants and contracts awarded to support this research
- Supervise CARC staff, projects, operations, facilities, and activities, including those that pertain to research administration functions and compliance with University, State, and Federal policies and regulations
- Fully integrate CARC’s research mission with graduate and undergraduate educational programs across UNM as well as outreach efforts to New Mexico schools and communities
- Establish active collaborative research partnerships both within the University (e.g., other departments, centers, and institutes) and with strategic partners outside the university (e.g., national laboratories, industry partners, economic development agencies)
- Represent CARC to the University and external communities at all levels
- Participate in VPR’s Research Council to help develop and implement Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) initiatives and provide input and feedback to the OVPR leadership team
- Mentor early career investigators, post-docs, and students in developing research programs that fit within CARC’s mission
- Prepare, oversee, and serve as responsible agent for the CARC budget, including oversight on sponsored projects, facilities usage, and staff compensation exercises
- Provide regular operational and planning reports to the VPR (monthly and yearly) and internal and external advisory boards (biannually and yearly, respectively)
- Establish a vibrant and well-funded collaborative research enterprise
