SIGOPS ANNOUNCE monthly posting (04/02/2014)

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OPODIS 2014

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Call for Proposals: Availability of 1000 Nodes for Systems Research
Experiments
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NSF's PRObE (www.nmc-probe.org) operates four clusters to support
systems research at scale.  The largest is Kodiak
(https://www.nmc-probe.org/wiki/Machines:Kodiak), which is 1000 nodes
(two core x86, 8GB DRAM, two 1TB disks, 1GE and 8Gbps IB) donated by
Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Today Kodiak is hosting researchers from Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon
and Los Alamos.  Princeton researchers have published results from
Kodiak at the most recent NSDI (Wyatt Lloyd, "Stronger Semantics for
Low-Latency Geo-Replicated Storage", NSDI 2013).  On PRObE staging
clusters are researchers from U Central Florida, UT Austin, Georgia
Tech and Carnegie Mellon.

PRObE resources are intended for (infrastructure) systems researchers
committed to public release of their research results, typically
publishing in distributed systems (eg. OSDI or SOSP), cloud computing
(e.g. SOCC), supercomputing (e.g. SC or HPDC), storage (e.g. FAST), or
networking (e.g. NSDI).

PRObE resources are managed by Emulab (www.emulab.org) a cluster
manager for allocating physical nodes that has been in use for systems
research for over a decade (Brian White, "An Experimental Environment
for Distributed Systems and Networks," OSDI 2002).  Users start by
porting and demonstrating their code on a 100-node staging cluster
such as Denali built from the same equipment donation from Los Alamos.
With demonstrated success on a staging cluster, and a compelling
research goal, Kodiak can be requested and allocated, possibly
exclusively, for hours to days.

To start using PRObE resources:
- visit www.nmc-probe.org to learn about the resources
- visit portal.nmc-probe.org to request a PRObE-specific Emulab
  account
- have a research leader or faculty member get an account and define a
  project on portal.nmc-probe.org
- use Portal to get onto Denali, to allocate a single node experiment,
  login into that node to customize and resave the OS image for your
  project, then launch a multi-node experiment to demonstrate your
  system at less than 100 node scale
- use https://www.nmc-probe.org/request/ to request a large allocation
  on Kodiak (this is a HotCRP paper review web site, where your paper
  is a short justification for your research, your preparedness for
  using Kodiak, and your credientials and appropriateness for using
  NSF resources)
- PRObE managers will review, approve and schedule your use of large
  allocations of Kodiak time

In a matter of weeks another style of large PRObE resource will come
online.  Susitna is 34 nodes of 64 core x86 processors, for a total of
more than 2000 x86 cores.  Susitna also has NVidia donated K20 GPU
coprocessors with 2496 cuda cores each, for a total of 84,864 cuda
cores.  With 128 GB DRAM, a hard disk and an SSD each, Susitna nodes
are interconnected by 40Gbps ethernet, 40 Gbps infiniband and 1Gbps
ethernet.

NSF PRObE resources will be available for at least the next two years.

All uses of PRObE resources are obligated to publish their results,
either in conferences or one their web sites, and acknowledge NSF
PRObE resources used in these publications.

See also our PRObE introduction article in the June 2013 USENIX
;login: vol 38, no 3, 2013
(www.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/papers/07_gibson_036-039_final.pdf).

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The EuroSys jobs page: A resource for the whole systems community
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If you are searching for a position in the Systems area, take a look
at http://jobs.eurosys.org/ New announcements are posted every day, in
several categories: internships, PhD grants and doctoral programs,
post-docs and permanent positions.

If you want to advertise for systems people, go to
http://jobs.eurosys.org/, and click on the appropriate "Advertise" link.
YOu will be asked to fill in a small form, with a 10-word description
of the job offer, the URL of your lab and the URL of a more detailed
advertisement.

The EuroSys jobs page gets around 10,000 hits a month.

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UC Berkeley is looking for a great programmer
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Dear academic & professional colleagues:

If you have an MS-or-better student finishing up this semester who's 
looking to stay in academia for a bit but doesn't want to jump right 
into a PhD, or a great programmer who's been around the block a 
couple of times and is looking to do something in the Bay Area for 
a few years, the ASPIRE project at UC Berkeley (agile co-design of 
hardware and software for high performance and energy efficiency) 
is looking for a full time programmer.

Technically, someone who knows something about languages and language
 engineering and has great software engineering practices; socially, 
someone who's interesting to be around and (ideally) even has some 
experience in an academic or R&D setting.

Nominally a career position, solid salary, great benefits and work 
with fun people - not just the Berkeley crowd but the many, many 
companies we have close relationships with (Intel, Google, Nokia, 
NVidia, Oracle, many others), and the chance to work with truly 
great students in a variety of settings.

See https://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/2013/09/aspire-is-hiring-a-great-software-engineer-maybe-you/
for more details and/or email Armando Fox <fox@cs.berkeley.edu> 
if any questions!