Recent technologies (such as Cloud Storage) introduce new paradigms like storage objects. In particular, the idea of "storage blobs" came from there. A storage blob is a bag of bytes, with a weak type and full independence with other object of the same type.
Storage blobs will apply this model to HPC in order to build massive and scalable architecture, up to exabytes or yottabytes (in 2020). Inside BigStorage, the study will focus of technologies offered by storage clouds (Amazon, Google, …) and the available APIs to accessed such remote storage. The goal here is to build storage blobs residing inside the Cloud Storage, as replicas to local storage blobs.
Existing solutions will be studied and eventually adapted to fit HPC environment. In practical situation, blobs will be used jointly with a distributed FS. Results of this study will have direct impact of CEA’s tomorrow’s data center architecture.
Description
Recent technologies (such as Cloud Storage) introduce new paradigms like storage objects. In particular, the idea of "storage blobs" came from there. A storage blob is a bag of bytes, with a weak type and full independence with other object of the same type.
Storage blobs will apply this model to HPC in order to build massive and scalable architecture, up to exabytes or yottabytes (in 2020). Inside BigStorage, the study will focus of technologies offered by storage clouds (Amazon, Google, …) and the available APIs to accessed such remote storage. The goal here is to build storage blobs residing inside the Cloud Storage, as replicas to local storage blobs.
Existing solutions will be studied and eventually adapted to fit HPC environment. In practical situation, blobs will be used jointly with a distributed FS. Results of this study will have direct impact of CEA’s tomorrow’s data center architecture.
To apply, please email a cover letter, CV, contact address of at least two professional references and copies of degree certificates to Dr. Philippe Deniel. Incomplete applications will not be considered or answered.
Nr of positions available : 1
Research Fields
Computer science
Career Stage
Early stage researcher or 0-4 yrs (Post graduate)
Research Profiles
First Stage Researcher (R1)
Comment/web site for additional job details
bigstorage.oeg-upm.net/jobs.html
Requirements
| ENGLISH |
| Excellent |
| Computer science |
| The candidate should have good knowledge in system administration and system development. He/she must have a major interest in storage technologies and the willing to work in designing paradigm for the future storage models. A former experience in system administration and/or the participation in a open-source project is a plus. The candidate must be autonomous in programming in C, Python, Perl and be familiar with packaging tools like autotools, cmake and rpmbuild. Due to the location of the job (in France, at the CEA facility), basic knowledge in French is a plus. The candidate must be fluent in English. | |
| t the time of recruitment, the applicant must not have lived in France for more than 12 month in the previous 36 month and he/she is in the first four years of his/her research career, starting at the date of obtaining the degree which would formally entitle to embark on a doctorate. |
| Master Degree or equivalent |