Roxar are seeking an academic partner and a PhD student with an expertise cloud computing for an Industrial Mathematics Internship.

Person Specification:

Strong programming skills are required, especially in scripting languages.

Project Description:

Having a measure of uncertainty is an important component when building a model of an oilfield reservoir. Roxar's EnABLE product makes use of large numbers of simulation runs to estimate uncertainties in a model. The advent of cloud computing brings the possibility of substantially increasing the number of simulation runs which can be performed thereby providing better estimates on uncertainty.

The internship will evaluate the role cloud computing can take for Roxar software. The work will include installing the Roxar software suite on to a cloud computing infrastructure. Evaluating the suitability of providing a cloud computing sandbox for the Roxar software suite. Benchmarks will be developed and tested for Roxar applications on a cloud computing infrastructure. The internship will also review state of the art statistical techniques for combining multiple simulation runs into an emulator.

The result will be a report detailing the issues with providing Roxar's application suite in a cloud computing environment.

Which parts of the company will the Intern become familiar with?

Roxar is a subsidiary of Emerson Electrical Co., a diversified global manufacturing and technology company with sales of $20.9 billion in 2009. The intern will be part of Roxar's software research and development organisation and will be based in Oxford. The intern will become familiar with the software development process within Roxar and how Roxar's products are used by clients worldwide.

Duration of the project:

3 months

Company location:

Oxford

Application process:

To apply, please send a CV and a cover letter to Vera Hazelwood.