[Blog] Post-doc Position

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> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:35:21 +0100
> From: Sara Bouchenak <Sara.Bouchenak@inria.fr>
> To: membres@sigops-france.fr, asr-forum@cines.fr
> Subject: [asr-forum] Post-doc Position
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> JOB OFFER
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> Post-doc position
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> TITLE
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> Towards Scalable and Dependable Computing in the Cloud
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> KEYWORDS
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> Distributed systems, Internet services Cloud computing, Caching,
> Scalability, Dependability
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> RESEARCH DESCRIPTION
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> Cloud Computing is a paradigm for enabling remote, on-demand access to a
> set of configurable computing resources. A Cloud may stand at different
> levels of the hardware and software stack where: (i) an Infrastructure as
> a Service (IaaS) cloud enables access to hardware resources such as
> servers and storage devices, (ii) a Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud
> allows the access to software resources such as operating systems and
> software development environment, and (iii) a Software as a Service (SaaS)
> cloud is an alternative to classical software applications running locally
> on personal computers which are, instead, provided remotely by the cloud
> (e.g. messaging services, document editing services, etc.). Although Cloud
> Computing provides a means to support remote, on-demand access to
> computing resources, its ad-hoc management poses significant challenges to
> the scalability, performance, dependability and economical costs of cloud
> services.
> The proposed project aims at investigating novel protocols to enhance the
> scalability and performance of the cloud, while guaranteeing its
> dependability and reducing its cost. Caching is a classical technique to
> improve service performance [Bouchenak et. al. 2006, Perez et. al. 2007,
> Rabinovich et. al. 2001]. However, service composition and cloud
> elasticity that underly Cloud Computing make classical caching techniques
> sub-optimal.
> This project aims at: (i) Proposing novel distributed algorithms and
> protocols, for (ii) Managing caching in th cloud, and (iii) Handling
> scalability and data integrity issues.
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> This project is a joint work between INRIA, Grenoble, France, and the
> Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
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> REFERENCES:
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> Bouchenak et. al. Caching Dynamic Web Content: Designing and Analysing an
> Aspect-Oriented Solution. ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware
> Conference, 2006
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> Perez et. al. Consistent and Scalable Cache Replication for Multi-tier
> J2EE Applications. ACM/ IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference,
> 2007
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> Rabinovich et. al. Web Caching and Replication Addison-Wesley, 2001
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> SKILLS
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> Distributed computing systems, Distributed algorithms, Internet services,
> Java programming
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> LOCATION
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> INRIA â€" The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science
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> Grenoble, France
> http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html
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> CONTACT
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> Sara Bouchenak
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> Sara.Bouchenak@inria.fr        |   http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/~bouchena/
> Phone: +33 (0)4 7661 53 82     |   Fax: +33 (0)4 7661 52 52
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