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Department of Computing Science, is looking for outstanding candidates for 2 PhD student positions within the field of distributed (grid and cloud) computing. The group?s research, study is focused on the design and analysis of methods, algorithms, and systems for service-oriented grid and cloud infrastructures.?

Existing 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?
Applications of autonomic network management?
Theory and algorithms for resource allocation setbacks?
Real-world applications of results from these topics?

Visit for an outline of current research, study projects click here.?

The research is carry out in an international and creative environment now 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 financially supported by projects (e.g., RESERVOIR, OPTIMIS, VISION Cloud) in close teamwork with major industrial (such as, IBM, SAP, and Atos Origin) and academic partners.?

Software is contributed to a variety of open source community efforts including NorduGrid/ARC and the Globus Toolkit, the concluding as a member of the Globus Academic Affiliate Program. The group is also a member of the NESSI workgroup on service-oriented infrastructure. The research is performed in collaboration with the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) and the UMIT research laboratory at Ume? University. HPC2N is a member center of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), providing skill and computing resources, including grid resources. HPC2N actively takes part in Swegrid, NDGF, NorduGrid and EGEE. UMIT is an environment for interdisciplinary research in scientific, high-performance, distributed, real-time, and visual computing, in addition to their industrial applications.?

Information about the positions:

The positions are aimed and its goal for PhD studies and research to be performed mutually with group members and collaboration associates, leading to a PhD degree. The positions include a competitive pay for a period of four years of research time, provided that expected study and research results are achieved. The position may also include part-time work (up to 20%) as teaching assistant. If so, the total time for the position is extended accordingly (up to a maximum of five years). Of keenly interest for the positions are mostly the following two directions of research.?

Construction and application of effective, practical virtual infrastructures for scientific computations. Scientific computations come in many forms. Applications ranging from large-scale, synchronized, memory-bound engineering setbacks to data-parallel data analysis problems demonstrate the assortment of modern scientific computations. As different types of scientific computations perform in a different way, the characteristics of the underlying computational infrastructure applications are run on can very much affect the efficiency of computational applications. In this eSSENCE-funded project, construction and application of virtual infrastructures (i.e. software systems) for scientific computations is studied.?

Example projects for prospective, potential students within this field include, but are not limited to, adaptation of applications and development of software systems for management of computations in new types of distributed resource environments, e.g., grid and cloud computing environments, in addition to analysis and (re)formulation of computational problems in application areas (e.g., systems biology and medicine) for improved aptitude to use current infrastructures. For these projects, knowledge of applications in computational science is meriting.?

Cloud computing:

The overall, in general research lines focus on management challenges for data centers (clouds) and the services provisioned in these. Prospective research topics range from enabling technologies such as hardware virtualization and power-aware server management, to data center management problems for instance admission control, placement (scheduling), and proactive elasticity, to higher-level concerns such as novel design patterns and programming paradigms for the construction of future cloud-native applications.?

Eligibility:

Applicants are expected to hold a Master of Science degree in computer science or a related field. As well as outstanding study results, distinction in systems development, software engineering practices, and expertise in modern programming languages and software development tools are expected. Strong systems skills with in-depth understanding 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 attractive merits. Important personal abilities are coordination and organization skills in addition to good communication skills in written and spoken English.?

Formal prerequisites include either (i) 240 ECTS credits (Swe. H?gskolepo?ng) of higher education studies of which as a minimum 60 should be on an advanced level (Master level) in computer science or similar relevant field, or (ii) 160 Swedish (old) credits (Swe. Po?ng; corresponding to 240 ECTS credits) of higher education studies if they were taken before July 1, 2007, or equivalent proficiency. The method for recruitment for the positions is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance (chap. 12, 2 ?) and the decision regarding the position cannot be appealed.?

Submitting application:

A complete application should include:?

Introductory letter?
?Statement of research interest?
Curriculum Vitae (CV)?
Copy of completed thesis (MSc and/or BSc)?
Copies of degree certificates, including documentation of completed academic courses and obtained grades?
Copies of original research publications, if any?
Description of software development knowledge?
Contact information for three persons willing to act as references?
Any other information relevant for the position?
All material should be submitted by email or in a single printed copy. Electronically submitted material should be in PDF or Word format.?

Further information:

For further information, please contact Dr. P-O ?stberg (email: p-o@cs.umu.se),?
Assistant Professor Johan Tordsson (email: tordsson@cs.umu.se), and?
Professor and Head of Department Erik Elmroth (email: elmroth@cs.umu.se).
Union information is available from?
SACO, +46-(0)90-786 53 65,?
SEKO, +46-(0)90-786 52 96 and?
ST, +46-(0)90-786 54 31.?

Reference number 313-104-12, should be sent to jobb@umu.se (state the reference number as subject) or to the Registrar, Ume? University, SE-901 87 Ume?, Sweden.?

Application Deadline: 24 February 2012.

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