The High Performance Computing Lab (HPCLab)
http://www.isti.cnr.it/ResearchUnits/Labs/hpc-lab/
located in Pisa, Italy, conducts sevarl research activities
in various areas of high performance computing, namely Grid and P2P Systems,
Data and Web Mining, Information Retrieval,
Distributed Search Engines.

The group, composed of about 20 people, is actively involved in several
important European Union projects including: CoreGrid, NextGrid,
XtreemOS, GridComp, SAPIR, etc.

HPCLab has an opening for a Research Fellow at PostDoc Level
in the area of Grid Computing to work on the EU FP6 funded
XtreemOS Project (http://www.xtreemos.eu).

Summary of the job description:

We need a person able to work in a team involved in the design and
implementation of a service/resource discovery system. The job will
mainly consist in the complete design and a basic implementation for
a service and resource discovery system. The system will offer, to
the other components of XtreemOS, the capability of searching
and selecting Grid services and resources. Also, the found elements
will be ranked according to the user's needs, e.g. in order to minimize
costs or improve QoS. The prototype system will be based on standard P2P algorithms.
More advanced issues of performance and quality of results will be
evaluated throughout the whole duration of the project, according to the
needs that will emerge from partners.

Required Skills: Grid Computing, P2P, Searching and Selection of Grid Services.

Currently the position is advertised as 1 year position (starting from September 2007),
but it has potential to be extensible up to 3 years (end of the contract August 2010).

Kindly share this message with your students or any other researchers
who are looking for job opportunities.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Domenico Laforenza

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Dr. Domenico LAFORENZA
High Performance Computing Laboratory
Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI)
Italian National Research Council (CNR)
Via G. Moruzzi, 1
56126 Pisa, Italy

Phone: +39 050 315-2992 (Direct)
Mobile: +39 348-3962628
Fax: +39 050-3152040
Email:
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