Applications from Phd's are invited for a two-year position in high-performance computing, sponsored by the European Union under the Marie Curie program (http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/home.htm), and offered by Critical Software, Portugal. Critical's high-performance computing (HPC) business and research unit started in the year 2000, leveraging on the research done at the University of Coimbra since 1996. Currently, the company's message passing product, named WMPI (http://www.criticalsoftware.com/wmpi/), a full implementation of the MPI-1.2 standard for Windows based clusters, has already gained a large user base worldwide. The post-doc fellow will participate in developments of the WMPI framework (full support of the MPI-2 standard, other platforms such as Linux, IA64, integration in the global GRID, etc). Critical has a flexible and young environment and is strongly committed to develop the HPC business unit to a level of international excellence. Fellows will have the opportunity to work with state of the art technologies, in a motivating area, and participate in the construction of a business unit with excellent opportunities of innovation and growth. The available position is a CAT 30 (the classification of the Marie Curie program for a post-doc) for two years. The monthly allowance is aprox. 2300 euros (net). Please send all inquiries and applications (including a detailed technical CV) to jobs@criticalsoftware.com Starting Date: A.S.A.P. All fellows must be nationals of an EU Member or Associated State, or have resided in the EU for at least five years immediately prior to their selection by the company: Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Associated States: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Malta, and Slovenia