The Scholarship

Phd in Cloud Computing for Datadriven Applications at University of Strasbourg, France
The Scientific and Parallel Computing and Imaging (ICPS) group is seeking very good candidates for the following subject. Applicants shall have a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or in a related discipline. As for all PhD studies, a genuine interest and curiosity in the subject matter and excellent analytical and communication skills, orally as well as literally, are needed. Further, since the research work normally involves developing and testing analytical techniques, good programming skills are important. A successful candidate should have a profound interest in parallel and distributed systems.

The main objectives of this PhD is to study the different available cloud solutions and to propose an environment able to transparently manage resources for dynamic-data-driven applications. The work will have to tackle specific issues such as handling on-the-fly provisioning of resources suitable to one given application, as well as their reservation, deployment and execution of processes.

Salary : 1300 Eur net / month (+optional 300 Eur/month if 64hrs teaching/year)

Application Deadline : 31st May 2010

Web Link

http://icps.u-strasbg.fr/web/jobs/cloud-computing-for-datadriven-applications