25 Jan 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)- Department
ICTEAM- Research Field
Computer science » Computer systems- Researcher Profile
First Stage Researcher (R1)- Country
Belgium- Application Deadline
29 Feb 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)- Type of Contract
Temporary- Job Status
Full-time- Hours Per Week
38- Offer Starting Date
1 Jul 2024- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by an EU programme- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
The applicant will join the ENSG to work on leading-edge research topics in crossroad of networking and systems to build a sustainable IT infrastructure. The group is composed of the PI and 3 PhD students, with fundings for 1 new PhD students and 2 post-docs.
Internet was designed at a time when computers were monolithic devices, transferring data over a network of routers and switches. This paradigm does not match the reality of today’s devices, which are composed of several elements of different nature (CPU cores, RAM, storage, NICs, GPU, etc). You will join the study of the fundamental challenges for the Internet to catch up with this shift of paradigm. Much like atoms were later refined into a set of particles, the communications of hosts must be reconsidered to enable the next leap in the Internet evolution.
We will examine the newfound programmability of the network, i.e., P4 switches and Smart NICs, to enable sub-atomic communications over the Internet by delegating the intelligence out of the end “hosts”.
The Smart NIC of a host may essentially act as a transparent multiplexer for the sub-devices of the host, bypassing unneeded CPU transfers, and saving time and energy. The Smart NIC will be aware of power-conservative strategies when assigning requests to cores. The group is also conducting research on efficient CPU-aware software pipelines using dynamic compilation to avoid cache and branch misses.
Programmable switches will similarly act as coordinators of the streams through the edge. They will also lead the transfers toward the right particles among the increasingly disaggregated datacenter’s resources that are serving a provider’s content. To overcome ossification, they may expose information and negotiate a behavior for each particle’s streams to reach one possible servicing entity through the best paths. It will be possible without going back to the “ends”, and therefore enable particle-to-particle encryption as well as network efficiency.
The resulting low latency communication will enable future use cases such as cloud gaming and latency-critical workloads, connecting nearby particles that are getting virtually closer thanks to 5G and fiber connectivity. In the long-term, the vision enforced by the group will bring back competitiveness to the Internet by standardizing the means for such next-generation sub-atomic communication.
The position is funded under the DHNET project by the Belgian national fund FNRS, on an INCENTIVE GRANT FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
The position is funded for 4 years. The candidate could start before July 2024 if she or he wants.
Keywords
Networking, Systems, High-speed packet processing, SmartNICs, P4, NFV
Application
Please send:
(a) Curriculum vitae;
(b) A motivation letter;
(c) Links to Master Thesis (If already defended);
(d) Transcript of grades, original and translation to English or French if not already in those languages;
(e) If applicable, links to examples of personal software contributions.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Computer science
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications
- Particularly successful student
- Excellent in the Operating System and networking courses
- Ease with low-level programming in C and/or Rust
- Autonomy, research-minded
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Good
Additional Information
Selection process
1) The candidates will be first evaluated on CV and other requirements detailed above
2) An online discussion will be organized with candidates passing stage one
3) An on-site interview will be organized (if possible) to meet all members of the team, typically a presentation of your master thesis will be asked
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- UCLouvain
- Country
- Belgium
- City
- Louvain-La-Neuve
- Postal Code
- 1348
- Street
- Place Sainte-Barbe, 2
- Geofield
Where to apply
[email protected]
Contact
- City
Louvain-la-Neuve- Website
http://www.uclouvain.be/icteam- Street
Place Sainte-Barbe 2- Postal Code
1348
STATUS: EXPIRED
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