Visiting Student - MCS - Garcia, Ainara - 8.21.26.

MPI4AI is a multi-university collaboration between Tennessee Technological University, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Stony Brook University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. It aims to specialize MPI collective communication patterns for the needs of modern AI workloads running at scale on HPC systems, including training and inferences using various levels of parallelism (data, tensor, pipeline, sequence), agentic collaboration, neural architecture search. Aspects such as how to relax consistency (e.g. ignore stragglers), integrate with heterogeneous memory tiers (GPU HBM, host memory, SSDs, external storage) and how to enable asynchronous, GPU-centric communication are crucial in this context and will be advocated for the upcoming MPI-5 and MPI-6 standards. The student's role in the project will be to co-design communication patterns specifically tailored for AI applications (training, inference, agentic workflows) and to identify novel ways to apply them in AI runtimes (Torch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, etc)

Education and Experience Requirements

• The entirety of the appointment must be conducted within the United States. 
• Must be 18 years or older at the time the appointment begins.
• Applicants must be:

  o Currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate studies at an accredited institution. 

  o Graduated from an accredited institution within the past 3 months; or

  o Actively enrolled in a graduate program at an accredited institution. 

  Job Family

  Visiting Student Graduate

  Job Profile

  Visiting Student - Graduate

  Worker Type

  Contingent Worker

  Time Type

  Full time

  Scheduled Weekly Hours

  40

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