A National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project has two research
assistantships (RA) for qualified graduate students who will pursue the Ph.D
. degree of Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) in Fall 2010
semester. The goal of the project is to develop a novel flash disk storage
architecture that exploits the addition of DRAM and dedicated software
schemes to incorporate flash memory based Solid State Disks (SSD
