Internship – Energy Efficient Servers

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Through our constant dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established leading end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 170 countries serving more than one third of the world’s population.

With 20+ sites across Europe and 1500 researchers, Huawei’s European Research Institute (ERI) oversees fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning across our network of European R&D facilities. Huawei’s ERI includes the new Zurich Research Center (ZRC), located in Zurich, Switzerland. A major element of ZRC is a new research laboratory focused on fundamental research in the area of computing systems, spanning new hardware, new software, and new algorithms.

The research work of the lab will be carried out not only by Huawei’s internal research staff but also by our academic research partners in universities across Europe. The lab will provide an open research environment where academics will be encouraged to visit and work on fundamental long-term research alongside Huawei staff in an environment that, like the best universities and research institutes, is open and conducive to such scientific work.

For this new ZRC Laboratory, we are seeking candidates for an internship on:

Energy Efficient Servers

Data center wastes billions of dollars annually because servers are not energy-proportional and have poor energy efficiency at low utilization. At the Zurich Research Center, we have are exploring several power management architectures to significantly increase servers efficiency in different workloads.

Requirements

As an intern joining our team, your task would be to:

• develop a deep understanding of the existing power management architectures in data centers
• to understand the power/performance tradeoffs of our power management architectures
• compared our architecture to the state-of-the-art approaches. This includes comparisons between different various data center workloads using different servers’ architectures.

Aside from such a comparative analysis, the successful candidate will also be developing a deeper understanding of the scalability of our architecture: how do they behave under increasing core/node count? And how the architecture can adapt to various existing workloads and future trends in data centers.

We welcome applicants at all levels from a M.Sc. student onwards.

• Good familiarity with workload characterization, datacenters, and system on chip architecture (x86 and ARM).
• Good familiarity with power management, power delivery and measurement tools (software/hardware).
• Strong coding and scripting skills (Python, TCL, Bash etc.) and Linux.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English.

Benefits

At the Zurich Research Center, the successful candidate becomes part of a multicultural team of leading European researchers with expertise spanning from microarchitectures to mathematics. We believe such breadth is crucial to succeed in our mission to drive new fundamental research and achieve new innovate breakthroughs in future computing systems. If this speaks to you, don’t hesitate to apply!