We seek one (1) student enrolled to a University MSc Program in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. The candidate will participate in the R&D activities of FORTH in the context of the EuroHPC JU-funded project NET4EXA. The NET4EXA project aims to create an advanced interconnect, which will scale to hundreds of thousands of computing nodes and will support modern HPC systems that are designed for massive AI tasks, such as the training of Large Language Models. The interconnect forms the backbone of such systems, and their overall performance is intimately tied to the scalability of the network and its tight coupling with the high-end compute elements Requirements • Enrolled to a University graduate MSc Program in Computer Science or Computer Engineering • Physical presence at FORTH, Heraklion, Crete for the duration of the position • Demonstrated experience with the C language. • Demonstrated knowledge with the runtime environment and compilations tools for HPC accelerators, such as NVIDIA GPU’s. • Demonstrated knowledge with workload-driven evaluation of GPU accelerators using AI frameworks, such a PyTorch or TensorFlow. • Demonstrated experience with communication protocols and abstractions for high-speed interconnects that provide RDMA-based operations. • Fluent knowledge of English. • Names of at least three professional references