Extreme Blue project urgently looking for Linux Development skills - Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:09:47 -0500

Subject : Extreme Blue project urgently looking for Linux Development skills

From : Edward Anderson <nilbus@nilbus.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:09:47 -0500

This looks like a pretty exciting internship this summer in Austin,
where the IBM Linux Technology Center is located. I was in the extreme
blue program last summer and really enjoyed it. The projects are done
in 4 person (intern) teams using agile methodologies, with mentors in
IBM that can guide you. They pay really well (and provide free housing
and relocation money), challenge you to improve, and provide a really
fun environment to work in. Details for the internship are below.
Anyone who is interested in this kind of work and meets the
qualifications should really jump on this.

Ed

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Randall S Horwitz <rhorwitz@us.ibm.[redacted]>
Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:29 PM
Subject: Extreme Blue project urgently looking for Linux Development skills
To: nilbus@nilbus.[redacted]

Hi Ed,

My name is Randy Horwitz, and I am technical staff in the Extreme Blue
Austin lab. Ross Grady recommended I contact you.

I have a project that we are going to run in the Austin lab next
summer that is going to enable the Linux OS (through adding API calls)
to be able to move data that is "hot" (often used) onto solid state
drives. But, since solid state drives are not ubiquitous yet, some
data will have to stay on old fashioned spinning disk drives. The
project will work to be able to make it possible for this kind of hot
swapping to happen efficiently and seamlessly

DB2 is on board, and will serve as a good test case for this new set
of APIs, which are planned at some point to be contributed back to
open source.

This is a great opportunity to work with some of the brightest Linux
developers in the world, to do something that is meaningful and that
will end up in the OS some day.

Obviously, this is going to take a lot of Linux internal knowledge,
where knowledge of Linux file systems will be helpful. C programming
is a must, as is a passion for Linux and open source. It will also
help if some one has considered things like performance, which will
be important in this work as well. Obviously, a lot of heavy duty
algorithmic work will be necessary here.

As a fall back, if some one has taken an OS class where they have had
to program something like a Linux like kernel, and had to write
something like a shell from scratch, we'd also be interested in
talking to those ppl as well. I may have another low level project
that can use those folks, if my Linux project can not.

So, I'm wondering if there is a group of people you can pass this
information on to that would be interested in applying to Extreme Blue
that have a lower level programming or Linux passion. Our preference
is for folks that have at least 3 months of experience in programming
for an internship or open source project, as well as some one who, as
you may remember, will be within a year of their graduation when they
finish with us next summer.

if they are interested, as you may remember, they'll need to apply to
Extreme Blue at www.ibm.com/extremeblue. And I'd love to have as many
people who want to to apply ASAP.

If you, or any one else, have questions, please encourage them to
email me here, or call me at the number below. I'd be very interested
in talking to them.

Thanks Ed!
Randy

Randy Horwitz
Technical Staff
IBM Extreme Blue-Austin
Phone: XXX 973-1990 (TieLine 363-1990)

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