From: krakowia@imag.fr (Sacha Krakowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: position available
Date: 8 Jan 1993 22:43:07 GMT
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
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A post-doctoral position is available in my group at Bull-IMAG
Grenoble, as part of the Esprit Basic Research Project
``Broadcast''.  This new project is doing research in the area of
large-scale distributed systems, covering the whole ground from paradigms,
algorithms, and architectures, all the way to actual systems.  Broadcast
comprises several groups in Europe: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne (CH), IMAG Grenoble (FR), INESC Lisboa (PT), INRIA Rocquencourt (FR),
IRISA Rennes (FR), University of Bologna (IT), University of 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK), and University of Twente (NL).

IMAG is the research institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
of the Universities of Grenoble, also sponsored by Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique. It groups 9 research laboratories, totalling
about 600 persons (including 300 graduate students). Bull-IMAG is one of
these laboratories, specializing in distributed systems and applications;
it has joint sponsorship from Bull. In the last three years, the work has
concentrated on the Guide project, an object-oriented distributed system,
supporting a language for shared distributed objects.

The main tasks of IMAG in Broadcast are:

Object replication, group protocols and their use for cooperative work,
system support (addressing, protection, storage) for objects.

This work involves cooperation with other partners of the project.
The post-doc is expected to work on either of those aspects, for which
preliminary work has already started. The emphasis is on scalable algorithms,
since the main thrust of Broadcast is on large scale systems.

Post-doctoral candidates with experience in distributed systems, operating
systems, languages for distributed programming, are invited to send
their resume to me (including degrees, professional experience, publications),
together with the names of three professional references.
Applicants are not required to master the French language at the time of
their application.

The technical reports and recent publications produced by our group are
available by anonymous ftp on the server imag.fr (129.88.32.1) in the
pub/GUIDE/doc directory.
The list of the available reports is in the file LIST in that directory.
A brief presentation of the project is in guide-overview.ps in that directory.

Grenoble is located in the French Alps, about 90 km south-east of Lyon
and 140 km south of Geneva. The city has 160 000 inhabitants,
the metropolitan area about 400 000. The city has strong universities and
engineering schools (about 40 000 students) and important high-tech
industries (Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, OSF, France Telecom, among others,
have R&D centers here). There is an active cultural life, as well as
rich opportunities for all-seasons outdoors activities (skiing, climbing,
hiking) within 30 minutes' drive.
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Sacha Krakowiak, Bull-IMAG, Centre Equation| e-mail :  krakowiak@imag.fr
2 av. de Vignate, 38610 Gieres, France     | tel: +3376634834 fax: +3376547615
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Sacha Krakowiak, Bull-IMAG 2, r. de Vignate| e-mail :  krakowiak@imag.fr
 ZI de Mayencin, 38610 Gieres, France      | tel: +3376634834 fax: +3376547615
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