Umeå University, Department of Computing Science, is seeking outstanding candidates for 2-3 post-doc fellowships within the field of cloud computing.
The group’s research is focused on the design and analysis of methods, algorithms and software for service-oriented cloud and grid infrastructures. Current and future topics of research interest include:
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 EU FP7 funded projects (RESERVOIR, OPTIMIS, VISION Cloud) in close collaboration with major industrial (e.g, IBM, SAP, and Atos Origin) and academic partners. Software is contributed to various open source community efforts including NorduGrid/ARC and the Globus Toolkit, the latter 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 Umeå University. HPC2N is a member center of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), providing competence 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, as well as their industrial applications.
The stipends are aimed for post-doctoral research, to be performed jointly with senior researchers and PhD students in the group, as well as with our collaboration partners. Coordination tasks within large-scale projects may also be included. The post-doc fellowships are for two years and come with competitive stipends.
Applicants should have earned a PhD in computer science or a related field relevant for the position, preferably not more than three years old. Research topics of interest span from distributed systems fundamentals to cloud and grid computing infrastructures, virtualization technology, and their academic and industrial applications, including, e.g., eScience applications. Industrial experience is also considered highly valuable. Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English are required.
Submitting your application
A complete application should include:
Further information
For further information, please contact primarily Assistant Professor Johan Tordsson
(email: tordsson@cs.umu.se, phone: +46 90 786 7176), or Professor and Head of Department Erik Elmroth (email: elmroth@cs.umu.se, phone: +46 90 786 6986).
Union information is available from SACO, +46 90 786 53 65,
SEKO civil, +46 90 786 52 96, and ST, +46 90 786 54 31.
Your complete application, marked with reference number 223-1044-11, should be sent to medel@diarie.umu.se (state the reference number as subject) or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive May 10, 2011 at the latest.
The group’s research is focused on the design and analysis of methods, algorithms and software for service-oriented cloud and grid infrastructures. Current and future topics of research interest include:
- architectures for distributed and federated clouds and grids
- 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
- basic tools for managing compute and data intense applications
- holistic system management based on business level objectives
- efficient use of virtualization techniques, including live migration
- design principles for cloud-ready applications
- applications of autonomic network management
- 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 EU FP7 funded projects (RESERVOIR, OPTIMIS, VISION Cloud) in close collaboration with major industrial (e.g, IBM, SAP, and Atos Origin) and academic partners. Software is contributed to various open source community efforts including NorduGrid/ARC and the Globus Toolkit, the latter 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 Umeå University. HPC2N is a member center of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), providing competence 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, as well as their industrial applications.
The stipends are aimed for post-doctoral research, to be performed jointly with senior researchers and PhD students in the group, as well as with our collaboration partners. Coordination tasks within large-scale projects may also be included. The post-doc fellowships are for two years and come with competitive stipends.
Applicants should have earned a PhD in computer science or a related field relevant for the position, preferably not more than three years old. Research topics of interest span from distributed systems fundamentals to cloud and grid computing infrastructures, virtualization technology, and their academic and industrial applications, including, e.g., eScience applications. Industrial experience is also considered highly valuable. Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English are required.
Submitting your application
A complete application should include:
- Introductory letter
- Statement of research interest
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Copy of completed PhD thesis
- Copies of degree certificates, including documentation of completed academic courses and obtained grades
- Copies of original research publications, if any
- Description of software development experience
- Contact information for three persons willing to act as references
- Any other information relevant for the position
Further information
For further information, please contact primarily Assistant Professor Johan Tordsson
(email: tordsson@cs.umu.se, phone: +46 90 786 7176), or Professor and Head of Department Erik Elmroth (email: elmroth@cs.umu.se, phone: +46 90 786 6986).
Union information is available from SACO, +46 90 786 53 65,
SEKO civil, +46 90 786 52 96, and ST, +46 90 786 54 31.
Your complete application, marked with reference number 223-1044-11, should be sent to medel@diarie.umu.se (state the reference number as subject) or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive May 10, 2011 at the latest.
RSS Feed
