Thanks to a grant (019629) from the European Commission 6th framework Marie Curie programme, the Department of Physics and the Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Sweden, announce four 6-months positions for Early Stage Researchers (ESR) in High Energy Physics.
The selected Early Stage Researcher (ESR) will perform supervised research in High Energy Physics. Possible areas are experimental or phenomenological research related to physics at the energy frontier ATLAS at the CERN LHC, heavy ion collisions ALICE at the CERN LHC or PHENIX at the Brookhaven RHIC, future electron-positron colliders, grid computing, or related areas.
The requirement for appointment is that the applicants are enrolled in a PhD program at a recognized university and well into that activity. The 6-months appointment in Lund should be a natural part of their career plan towards the PhD degree at the home university. The requirement for appointment is that the applicants are enrolled in a PhD program at a recognized university and well into that activity. The 6-months appointment in Lund should be a natural part of their career plan towards the PhD degree at the home university.
Eligible students may not have been resided or carried out their main activity in Sweden for more than 12 months in the three years prior to the appointment.
For full announcement and instructions how to apply, see the official announcement or contact Prof. Torsten Åkesson (). Deadline: May 30, 2008.
A postdoc position at the Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics at Uppsala University with the task to develop further the ARC middleware within the KnowARC project is announced. The successful applicant will work together with the Uppsala Grid Group which have members from both the Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics and the Department of Information Technology as well as with colleagues form other partners in the KnowARC project.
The position is open from 2008-01-01 for a period of one year with a possible extension to 2009-08-31. The task is to develop grid middleware within the KnowARC project.
For full announcement and instructions how to apply, see the official announcement page or contact Prof. Tord Ekelöf () and Dr. Mattias Ellert () . Deadline: December 20, 2007.
Umeå university, Sweden is seeking outstanding candidates for 1-3 Post Doctoral and 1-2 PhD Student positions. The positions focus on design of service-oriented Grid infrastructure in projects funded by the Swedish Research Council and EU. See the GIRD project site for current research. The group is affiliated with the Globus Alliance, NESSI, the CoreGRID Network of Excellence, SweGrid, NDGF, and EGEE. For full announcement and instructions how to apply, see the official announcement page or contact Erik Elmroth (). Deadline: October 22, 2007.
The PhD stipend is available within the general study programme "Computer Science and Engineering", in relation to the NGIn project. NGin is a Nordic reseach project focusing on data management in grid systems, especially in the NorduGrid ARC middleware. This project is funded by the NorduNet3 program. The position in Aalborg will focus on development of scheduling methods for grid jobs taking into account data placement and network topology. See the official announcement for details. The closing date for applications is: 30 September 2007.
Applications are invited for a three-years Ph.D. research fellowship in the field of Grid Computing at the University of Oslo, Norway, in relation to the the NorduGrid project "Innovative services and tools for NorduGrid", funded by the Nordunet3 programme. See the official announcement for details. The closing date for applications is: 1 September 2006.
Applications are invited for two positions in the field of Grid Computing at the University of Oslo, Norway, in relation to the KnowARC project: Researcher (grid computing with administrative duties), and Researcher (grid computing). The closing date for applications is: 15 August 2006 or until the positions are filled.
The Nordic Data Grid Facility, NDGF, has an opening for a number of grid middleware developer positions. The positions are initially available from September 1st, 2006 till 31st of December 2007.
The appointed candidates will, depending on skill and experience work with improving the ARC grid middleware and its use, in particular:
The appointed candidates will take part in the virtual team of NDGF middleware developers and national coordinators spread over the Nordic countries and will be directed by the NDGF Software Coordinator. The candidates will be hosted either at the NDGF Head Quarter in Copenhagen or at a University or Research Institution in either Norway, Sweden, Denmark or Finland.
The right applicant has a good understanding of computational and storage grids, either from experience with other grid middelwares like LCG, Globus or Condor or preferably with the NorduGrid/ARC middleware. He or she will also have computational skills at system administrator level and/or in depth programming experience. Further, knowledge from scientific work related to current the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN will be a benefit.
The application must contain CV, resume of earlier research experience and letters of reference and should be sent to: CEO René Buch, NDGF and NORDUnet A/S, Kastruplundsgade 22, 2770 Kastrup, Denmark
Inquiries about the job, facilities, and staff can be answered by the NDGF middleware development coordinator Josva Kleist, . Deadline: September 28.
Nordic Data Grid Facility is seeking a Software Coordinator to manage, oversee and coordinate Grid middleware development. Please contact CEO René Buch at for details.
Applications are invited for a position as a PhD candidate in the Medical Informatics Service, University and University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland. The successful applicant will join a team of researchers working on infrastructures, algorithms, and representations of medical knowledge using structured and unstructured textual data as well as images. The use of grid networks for the computationally intensive tasks of image analysis and retrieval are in the center of the work. The work will be carried out in the context of a European Union 6th Framework project called KnowARC. The middleware developed in the project will be based on the Nordugrid ARC middleware. The work carried out will consist in supplying adapting current image analysis applications towards grid-enabled applications and profit from the possibilities that grids offer to develop new applications. The work will include a close contact with infrastructure specialists at the University and the Hospitals to find ways to use grid infrastructures in large organizations and to avoid obstacles, for example regarding security issues.
The candidate is expected to have a Masters/Diploma degree in computer science, mathematics or a closely related field, and to have strong programming skills particularly on Linux platforms. Knowledge in image processing and/or grid networks is of advantage. More details are available in the job announcement. For more information on the project or the application process please contact Dr. Henning Mueller,
The Department of Physics in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, announces several Post Doctoral or Researcher positions in High Energy Particle Physics and associated Grid computing
3 Post Doctoral or Researcher positions are funded by the Research Council of Norway mainly under the project "CERN-Related High Energy Particle Physics Research", with a small contribution from the project "Instrumentation for High Energy Particle and Nuclear Physics". The selected post-doc or researcher fellows are expected to work on the ATLAS project. One of the positions will be based at CERN, at least from 2007. For more details, see announcement REF. NR.: 06/4764. The closing date for application is: May 9, 2006.
1 Post Doctoral or Researcher position is funded by the Research Council of Norway mainly under the project "CERN-Related High Energy Particle Physics Research", with a contribution from the programme "eVITA". The selected candidate is expected, in particular, to develop grid-computing software and middleware: the position will be counted as an in-kind contribution from Norway to the LHC-Computing Grid project (LCG). For details, see the announcement REF. NR.: 06/4836. The closing date for application is: May 10, 2006.
The Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden is seeking qualified candidates for a post doctoral position in Grid computing.
Current Grid computing research at the department is focused on the design and analysis of methods, algorithms and software for Grid resource brokering, Grid accounting, Grid-wide fairshare scheduling, job management support, Grid portals, and data replication systems. Software is contributed to NorduGrid/ARC and the Globus Toolkit, the latter as a member of the Globus Academic Affiliate Program. The project is partly funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). (For project overviews, see http://www.cs.umu.se/research/grid/)
The successful candidate will join the existing research group and conduct joint research on Grid computing topics of mutual interest. Such topics include, but are not restricted to general middleware components, tools, environments, and applications.
The candidate should have earned a PhD in an area relevant for this research, and have documented experience in software development for Grid environments using state-of-the-art tools and techniques. The applicant should also propose a research plan.
See http://www.cs.umu.se/openpos/postdoc_grid.html for the full announcement and instructions. Deadline is May 15, 2006.
For further information, please contact Associate Professor Erik Elmroth () or Professor Bo Kagstrom ().
Sub-department of High Energy Physics at Uppsala University announces a PhD position for Particle Physics data analysis in the ATLAS Experiment at CERN using and optimizing SweGrid, in particular its data storage function. Application deadline is September 15 2005.
National test-beds for R&D in Grid-technology are now being set up in all the Nordic Countries. To ease the integration of Grid technology in the Nordic countries the research councils have decided to fund the Nordic DataGRID Facility, which aims to help build and integrate Grid initiatives in the member countries.
To help with this process we are currently looking to fill 3 Post. Doc./Research Assistant positions, one each in Denmark, Norway and Sweden respectively.
The successful applicant is expected to have extensive experience in system administration and development. Experience with Grid software and systems will be an advantage.
The applicants must have an affiliation with an agency (e.g. University, Institute) and for the period of the project (until 31/12 2004) payments of salary will be made through this agency with possible prolongation. Applicants must provide a letter from this agency, which states their willingness to host the Nordic DataGRID Facility Post. Doc./Research Assistant for the period in question. Salary level will be based on competence and experience and follow normal university levels for comparable positions.
More information about the project is available from the Director, Brian Vinter, (+45) 6550 2357 or e-mail
Applications marked Grid Post. Doc. should be sent to: Nordic DataGRID Facility, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark. No later the April 21st 2003.
The Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway, announces a position as postdoctoral research associate in physics, with involvement in NorduGrid activities. The closing date for application is: 18 March 2003.
The Department of Computing Science and High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) at Umeå University, Sweden, announces a PhD Student Position in Grid Computing. Closing date for application is March 11, 2003.
GRID is a highly potential future scheme for providing high throughput computing. The scheme is based on the use of geographically dispersed clusters of large numbers of commodity computers (PCs, workstations) and disc memory units, connected through very high speed data links. An inter-Nordic test bed facility, aiming at the implementation of such a GRID scheme in Scandinavia, to be part of a future worldwide GRID, is presently being planned. The test bed facility will provide hardware and software infrastructure for interdisciplinary feasibility studies of GRID-like computer structures and metacomputing. The project shall collect and document experience to provide a basis for decisions on the future computer infrastructure strategy for sciences requiring distributed petabyte (1015bytes) storage capacity and processing power in the order of teraflops (1012 flops).
The test bed project is set up as an inter-Nordic collaboration between the universities in Copenhagen, Lund, Stockholm, Uppsala, Helsinki, Oslo and Bergen. The research groups at these universities, that have initiated this project, are preparing high-energy physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. The LHC will start operating in 2005. A satisfactory analysis of the massive amounts of experimental data that will be produced at LHC can only be achieved if processing capacities of the order mentioned above can be made available at that time. CERN has initiated a European DATAGRID test bed project, with financial support from EC, with which the inter-Nordic GRID test bed project will be coordinated. Processing power of the same order will also be required in the future for research in Earth sciences, genomics, molecular biology, space science, astrophysics and many other branches of natural sciences and technology. The inter-Nordic GRID test bed project is, like the CERN DATAGRID project, planned to include GRID applications for sciences outside the high-energy physics.
The inter-Nordic GRID test bed project is divided into 6 Work Packages which are: 1)test bed hardware, such as networks and computer farms, 2) computer farm software, such as the Globus and Condor packages, 3) GRID monitoring services, such as problem tracing and security, 4) GRID data management, to provide features like scalability, uniformity and transparency, 5) user applications and benchmark tests, to be supplied from different disciplines and 6) dissemination of information on GRID through, e.g., Web sites and workshops.
The Nordunet2 program has allocated funds for two postdoc positions for the inter-Nordic GRID test bed project. The applicant should have experience of work with computers and programming in natural science research. The two nominees are expected to take a key role in the execution of the Work Packages. The first phase of the project will be focused on getting the hardware and software infrastructure of Work Packages 1 to 4 into an operational state. In addition to installing and maintaining already available software packages, there will be need for software development, in particular, for Work Packages 3 and 4. The project is planned for the period from January 2001 to July 2003. The positions are announced for 1+1 years, starting spring 2001, with the second year pending confirmation by the Nordunet2 council. A yearly grant, exempt from taxation, of the equivalent of about 250 000 DKK, will be paid for each position. One position will be based at Lund University and cover the activities in Copenhagen, Lund, Oslo and Bergen, and the other position will be based at Uppsala University and cover the activities in Stockholm, Uppsala and Helsinki. The application should state which of the two positions it refers to, and be accompanied by a CV, a list of publications and two letters of recommendation. It should be submitted in five copies before 25 February 2001 to:
Lektor John Renner Hansen
Dept. of Experimental High Energy Physics
Niels Bohr Institute
Blegdamsvej 17
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
DENMARK