Thread: BECAS
Author: Carlos Perez Conde
Posted: 2012-02-15 14:39:51.594219+01
2 PhD students in Distributed (Grid and Cloud) Computing.
Umeå University, Department of Computing Science, is seeking outstanding candidates for 2 PhD student positions within the field of distributed (grid and cloud) computing.
The group's research is focused on the design and analysis of methods, algorithms, and systems for service-oriented grid and cloud infrastructures. Current and future topics of research interest include:
- architectures for distributed and federated grid and clouds
- scheduling and resource brokering of virtual machines, jobs, and data
- job and workflow management
- autonomic service elasticity
- admission control for safe resource overbooking
- distributed monitoring, accounting, and quota enforcement
- tools for management of compute and data intense applications
- holistic system management based on business level objectives
- efficient use of virtualization techniques, including live migration
- design principles for distributed applications
- theory and algorithms for resource allocation problems
- real-world applications of results from these topics
The research is performed in an international and creative environment currently comprising 17 persons of 6 nationalities. We work within large scale national and international projects, including national strategic research projects (e.g., eSSENCE) and EU FP7 funded projects (e.g., RESERVOIR, OPTIMIS, VISION Cloud) in close collaboration with major industrial (e.g, IBM, SAP, and Atos Origin) and academic partners.
The research is performed in collaboration with the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) and the UMIT research laboratory at Umeå University. HPC2N is a member center of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), providing competence and computing resources, including grid resources. UMIT is an environment for interdisciplinary research in scientific, high-performance, distributed, real-time, and visual computing, as well as their industrial applications.
About the positions
The positions are aimed for research and PhD studies to be performed jointly with group members and collaboration partners, leading to a PhD degree. The positions include a very competitive salary for a period of four years of research time, provided that expected study and research results are achieved. The student positions may also include up to 20% as teaching assistant. If so, the total time for the position is extended accordingly (up to a maximum of five years).
Requirements
Applicants are expected to hold an MSc degree in computer science or a related field. In addition to excellent study results, excellence in systems development, software engineering practices, and proficiency in modern programming languages and software development tools are expected Strong systems skills with in-depth knowledge of grid computing, cloud computing, high-performance computing, high-throughput computing, and/or other types of distributed systems are highly valuable. Experience of open source environments and from software or research-oriented industry are other desirable merits. Important personal abilities are coordination and organization skills as well as good communication skills in written and spoken English.
Further information
For further information, please contact Dr. P-O Östberg, Assistant Professor Johan Tordsson, and Professor and Head of Department Erik Elmroth, {p-o, tordsson, elmroth}@cs.umu.se.
Full instructions about how to apply are available at http://www.cloudresearch.se
Application deadline: February 24, 2012
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