[Storage-research-list] Research Intern Positions at Seagate Pittsburgh

[Joan Digney]

Sent on behalf of Erik Riedel, Seagate, Pittsburgh
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research intern positions @ Seagate (Pittsburgh, PA)

The Interfaces and Architecture department at Seagate
Research is looking for multiple research interns for the
Spring and Summer of 2007. Requirements are for highly
motivated and independent students who are currently
pursuing their Ph.D. or M.S. work in the area of computer
systems or a related field (2nd year or beyond
preferred). Direct research experience with storage systems
or file systems is a plus, but a background in related areas
such as operating systems, networking, performance
evaluation, mobile computing or databases is also welcome.

Seamless Movement of Digital Media - understand the
underlying technical issues in the communication among
consumer devices to exchange and synchronize stored data.
The goal of this project is to better understand how today's
media-rich devices are talking to each other - e.g., digital
cameras, camcorders, TVs, PVRs, PDAs and laptops - and to
identify the technical barriers (not the marketplace
artifacts) to seamless interoperability among all the
gadgets that play a central role in managing people's data.
Why does it seem so difficult to do? Can existing technology
from disconnected operation, distributed systems or
peer-to-peer neatly address all the issues? Skills required
include a knowledge of networking, file systems,
peer-to-peer and multimedia.

Data Mining for Workload Characteristics - identify data
mining techniques to organize, analyze and characterize
multivariate time series. An example is a data set of disk
request arrivals over a long period of time from a large
number of drives. Questions to be answered include: What
type of data clustering techniques are effective in such
cases? Which metrics should be used to compactly
characterize such a large data set? What size populations
are required to draw strong conclusions?

Monitoring and Self-Management - In self-managed systems, it
is common to deploy feedback loops for system management
such that the system parameters are tuned to current
conditions. This requires monitoring of a system's
performance. Another approach is to monitor the system
conditions themselves, characterize them compactly
(e.g. using histograms or similar structures) and tune
algorithm parameters based on those observations. This
allows the system to adapt to changes in a timely fashion
with emphasis on efficiency and robustness. The goal of this
project is to compare and evaluate multiple possible
algorithms for use in an adaptive storage system.



CONTACT (please reference one of the job areas above):

Lori Beal, Seagate Recruiting
Lori.A.Beal at seagate.com

Erik Riedel, Seagate Research
Erik.Riedel at seagate.com

http://www.seagate.com/jobs

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technology industry. Our staff includes experts in magnetic
recording, mechanical engineers, material scientists,
physicists, chemists, computer engineers, computer
scientists, mathematicians and modelers all working on
technology to cover the entire spectrum of Seagate products
from portable consumer devices to mission-critical
enterprise storage.

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storage innovations that have spread out from here and left
their mark on the entire industry. This stretches from AFS
and Coda research at Carnegie Mellon and later Transarc and
IBM to storage research at the Pittsburgh Supercomputer
Center (PSC), to numerous innovations from the Data Storage
Systems Center (DSSC) and the Parallel Data Laboratory
(PDL). Intel and Seagate both have storage-focused research
labs in Pittsburgh. Network Appliance and startup Panasas
also have design centers in Pittsburgh.