Position Available

Spring, 2001

Student System Administrator

Laboratory for Knowledge Discovery in Databases

A new system administrator position is available in the Lab for Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) of the Computing and Information Sciences (CIS) Department at K-State. We currently have one system administrator, but due to the group’s growth through the summer and fall of 2000, we are seeking an additional graduate or undergraduate hourly assistant to join this team. Responsibilities shall include:

· Management of existing KDD systems, software (including contribution of configuration ideas)

· Supporting research programmers with technical and systems-related issues

· Assisting with purchasing, configuration, maintenance of KDD workstations, servers, and network

Necessary Qualifications

· Professional attributes: cooperation, diligence, self-motivation, persistence, responsibility

· Solid understanding of Unix or Linux, particularly file systems, security, and networking

· PC hardware installation and configuration skills

Preferred Qualifications

· Database administration (Oracle, Informix, etc.) or development (SQL, ODBC, etc.) experience

· Networking knowledge (understanding of IP protocols, LANs, etc.)

· Previous system administration experience (especially Unix, Windows NT/2000)

· Knowledge of graphics systems (hardware and libraries)

· Experience with C, C++, or Java

· Relevant courses include:

- CIS520: Operating Systems

- CIS560: Database System Fundamentals

- CIS636 or EECE636 (first course in Computer Graphics)

- CIS726: Advanced WWW Technologies

· Previous work on group projects

· Available to work during the summer

· Ideal candidates will be able to start in Jan-Feb 2001 and remain with the group for at least a year

Our computing environment comprises a number of high-end Intel Pentium III Xeon, Sparc, PowerPC G4, and MIPS R10000 (SGI) workstations, most of which are multiprocessor systems, and some of which belong to the department Beowulf cluster. These systems run Linux, Windows 2000, Solaris, MacOS X, and Irix. Software components of our environment include Borland JBuilder, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MS Visual C++/J++, Lisp, Scheme, Alias|Wavefront Maya, Open GL, Renderman/BMRT, various expert system shells and scripting languages, and a vast array of visualization and computational mathematics packages (MATLAB, SAS, MineSet, NeuroSolutions, etc.). Our systems are connected by high-speed networks to the computing facilities of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance. The lab director is William H. Hsu (http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu).

If interested, please send e-mail documenting:

· Your experience, academic background, and interests

· Computer Science and Computer Engineering courses taken; overall GPA

· Names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of 3 references

To: kdd-search@www.kddresearch.org

The KDD Lab web site is at: http://www.kddresearch.org

This search commences Wednesday, 10 Jan 2001 and continues until the position is filled. For full consideration, please submit your application by Friday, 19 Jan 2001.