PhD Positions Available@ECE.UMN

To U. of Minnesota Grad Students in Computing:

Prof. Lilja and I are ramping up research work in the area of peer-to-peer storage systems and we have several RA positions available immediately. This work aims to improve the state-of-the-art in peer-to-peer-like storage clusters that can self-organize to achieve high performance, scalability, and low-maintenance overhead. These clusters will likely be deployed in some of the largest computers on the planet.

Significant prior research in this area has been performed at the U. of California at Santa Barbara, as part of the Sorrento p2p storage cluster project:

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/projects/sorrento/

We are looking for students with significant programming experience in distributed systems, file systems, p2p architectures, and networking. We anticipate this project will stretch over 3 to 4 years and will involve the potential for several interesting Ph.D. and M.S. thesis projects.

If you are interested, please send a short note stating your interest and qualifications, as well as your resume/vita to Prof. O'Keefe (mokeefe@umn.edu).

Thank you,

Matthew O'Keefe
Adjunct Professor
mokeefe@umn.edu
612-889-0550
Office: EE/CS 5-183

EE/CS Building
200 Union St. S.E.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455