Location: LIP/ENS - Lyon (69) FRANCE
Research Team: GRAAL/INRIA
Duration: 12 months
Gross salary / month: 2 681 Euros
INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). INRIA has a workforce of 3,800 people working throughout its eight research centres established in seven regions of France. The GRAAL team at INRIA Lyon seeks a talented programmer to develop the next-generation distributed computing middleware as part of the EDGeS project. EDGeS is an FP7 European project whose goal is build a Grid infrastructure composed of "Desktop Grid", such as BOINC, where computing resources are provided by Internet volunteers, and "Service Grid", where computing resources are provided by instutionnal Grid such as EGEE. The goal of the EDGeS project is to provided the technologies to bridge this two kind of Grids. Our partners include SZTAKI insitute (Hungary), CIEMAT (Spain), Univ Cardiff (UK), Univ Westminster (UK), AlmereGrid (NL), IN2P3 (FR) and more.
The programmer will work in a high-tech environment using bleeding edge Grid technologies (EGEE, glite, Globus) to implement a bridge between Service Grid and Desktop Grids. The developper will propose a new architecture to allow efficient and secure data management and data access. This will include understanding the requirement in term of security and performance propose adequate solution in collaboration with IN2P3, Univ Westminster and SZTAKI institute. The job consists in the following components : implemention of the middleware, evaluation and benchmarking, deployment and maintenance, technical report and administrative duties.
Applicants are required to have at least 3 years of programming in Java and C/C++, and the ability to travel to European sites. Familiarity with Grid systems, security in distributed systems, volunteer computing systems is a plus, though not required. Good knowledge of French and English language is required as well as the ability to write technical report.
Should you need further technical information about this position, please contact : Gilles Fedak
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