The French National Research Center (CNRS) is hiring a research engineer in informatics to port medical image analysis applications on the EGEE grid infrastructure.
The EGEE infrastructure European project (Enabling Grids for E-science, 2004-2006) deployed and operates the largest European grid infrastructure. This world-wide grid if providing to its users more than 18000 CPUs and 5 PB of storage space distributed in 170 computing centers. A grid middleware is developed to ease the transparent access to the grid resources from the users point of view. This infrastructure is opened to different application areas, including the biomedical applications working group that is managed by CNRS. EGEE will be reconducted for 2 years in a second phase project, EGEE2, starting in April 2004.
Six application areas with a string interest for grid infrastructures have been identified for EGEE2: high energy physics, biomedical applications, earth sciences, astrophysics, computational chemistery, and nuclear fusion. Applications in all these areas will be deployed on the infrastructure.
This position is part of the "biomedical applications" working group (NA4/biomed). The role of the hired engineer will be to deploy grid services and port medical image processing application to the grid infrastructure.
The hired engineer will work at the interface between the EGEE middleware developers and the medical image analysis application developers. He or she will learn and experiment the grid middleware, and participate to the deployment of specific services of interest for the target applications. He/she will be a technical coordinator, easing discussions and exchanges between the middleware developer from the informatics community and the signal processing community of the application developers.
The hired engineer will help the users in accessing to the grid resources. He/she will develop, deploy and opearte some services such as:
He/she will be working on the Bronze Standard application to medical images registration developed at I3S in collaboration with INRIA.The hired engineer will work in an active research and development team. He/she will have to adapt to the broad spectrum of technologies used. He/she will reinforce the international technical team of the NA4/biomed activity that was initiated in the EGEE project and that will be enlarged in EGEE2.
A working desk will be set up in the CNRS I3S laboratory, in the Computer Science building. The hired engineer will work on local servers for deploying some services, and on the distributed grid infrastructure resources deployed in the EGEE project.
The work will require short but frequent deplacement, most frequently in Europe and especially to CERN (Geneva).
The candidate will be hired as a CNRS research engineer or expert engineer depending on the experience. Then CNRS fees are available from:
Please send your CV and recommandations to:
| Johan Montagnat | |
| I3S, bât. ESSI | |
| 930 route des Colles | |
| BP 145 | |
| 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex | |
| mail: | johan@i3s.unice.fr |
| tél: | (+33) 492 96 51 03 |
| web: | http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~johan/ |