From: laforgue@imag.fr (Pierre LAFORGUE)
Newsgroups: imag.jobs,fnet.general
Subject: Job opening at the Grenoble OSF Research Institute
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:26:46 GMT
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France

> From: loveluck@gr.osf.org

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	  OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE

		       Grenoble, France

		       Job Announcement
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The Open Software Foundation is looking for a Senior Advanced
Development Engineer to join a team at its Research Institute in
Grenoble, France. A description of the current activities of the
OSF RI is attached, together with a job description for the vacant
post. Please post this announcement on your notice board and/or pass
it on to anyone you know who may be interested.

The OSF RI team is multinational, and there are strong links with
the parent organisation in Cambridge U.S.A.

Applications, including a curriculum vitae, may be sent either by
e-mail to pannetie@gr.osf.org (or pannetie@ri.osf.fr) or by post
to:

Claude Pannetier
Open Software Research Institute
2, Avenue de Vignate
38610 Gieres
France

Grenoble is situated in the French Alps, about 90km south-east of
Lyon and 140km south-west of Geneva. The city has 160,000 inhabitants,
the metropolitan area about 400,000. There are approximately 40,000
students at Grenoble University and Engineering School (Ecole
d'Ingenieur) and Grenoble also benefits from important high-tech
industries: as well as the OSF, Bull, Hewlett-Packard and Sun,
among others, have R&D centres in Grenoble, and Xerox has recently
announced that its European Research Centre will be located in the
Grenoble area.  In addition to the in-house advanced development
programme, the OSF Research Institute has links to IMAG, the
university research Institute for Computer Science and Applied
Mathematics, and with other European research centres.

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Senior Advanced Development Engineer
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The OSF RI has an opening in the Operating Systems Advanced
Development Group. The work will be with the OSF/1 MK Operating
System architecture, a set of operating system services running as
servers on the Mach 3 microkernel.

This architecture has already been, or is being, ported to a number
of hardware platforms, including intel 486, MIPS, HP-PA, DEC Alpha
and IBM RS6000, both for uniprocessors and multiprocessors.  A
version of OSF/1 MK has  also been developed for multicomputers,
that is massively  parallel machines, with potentially thousands
of processors connected by a fast interconnect and using no shared
memory.

The experience with multicomputers is now being extended to
workstation clusters. This work will involve architectural studies
and performance analysis, followed by prototyping and implementation,
of a cluster operating system, based on OSF/1 MK, and including
the following aspects:

 o client/server architecture  
 o single system image on clusters of machines  
 o distribution of services

Development is done in collaboration with academic and industrial
research organizations who are experimenting with our technology
by porting innovative software systems to them, such as an
object-oriented platform for distributed applications.

Responsibilities of the job include:

 o understanding current OSF technologies, in particular OSF/1 MK
   and DCE  
 o analysing the system's performance characteristics  
 o identifying architectural performance problems and developing
   solutions   
 o working with a team designing an architecture for networked
   clusters based on OSF/1 MK and available technology from
   industrial and academic research groups  
 o implementing a distributed single system OSF/1 MK image on a
   networked cluster  
 o evaluating kernel services to contribute to the evolution of 
   Mach 3

Presentation and publication of technical results at conferences
and specialized workshops is an important part of the job. The
candidate should be able to defend his/her technical ideas within
a dynamic and opinionated team.  The working environment is English
and fluency in English is essential.

A successful candidate will have the following;

 o BS degree or beyond preferably in Computer Science  
 o Fluency in C is required.  
 o 2 to 5 years UNIX kernel experience (BSD, System V or other)  
 o Knowledge of advanced kernels such as Mach, or other similar
   technologies, is desirable.  
 o Familiarity with distributed file systems is a plus.  
 o Good communication skills and fluency in English  
 o Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work in teams  
 o Good organizational skills and attention to detail are necessary.
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Pierre.Laforgue@imag.fr