Investing in the future

Sizing Servers was born from the dynamic study choice of Multimedia and Communication Technology, better known as MCT. The team behind MCT possesses a unique combination of server, networking, database, web and software expertises. It is an ideal environment to start up a lab that focuses on optimizing software to perform on hardware to the best of it capabilities. Besides growing up to become lab with internationally recognized expertise, our goal is to greatly improve the education provided in MCT, through our daily contacts with the world of the SMB's.

What we need are people with a wide array of interests and skills. Every year, a team of strongly motivated interns joins us in our services and research. Naturally, the thesii of these students don't get covered in a layer of dust in the local library. The results are published on the web, and get the attention of 500.000 unique IP's on average. Every year, we build on the work the students of Multimedia and Communication Technologies, and the masters of Electronics-ICT (both MIT and ICT).

Working daily with the most modern of server technologies, working on providing services and research gives the ambitious student an extroardinary internship. Quality control, good communication and deadlines are no longer meaningless words, but are of the essence in providing Flemish IT-companies excellent services. The results of their work will be read by a large-scale English-speaking community of IT professionals. Because they are also applied in practice, the research is made especially interesting. The fact that labs from Sun, Intel, AMD, IBM, etc. are following what these students are doing closely makes an internship at Sizing Servers a great challenge.

Not only interns are able to enjoy the benefits of our lab, however. Because of the large amount of expertise being built, we are able to make our students' courses a lot more up-to-date and to the point.

Though the quadcore Intel Xeon and the most recent AMD Opteron servers probably stand out the most, the server lab is so much more than just about hardware. Linux and Windows Server 2003 are the most commonly used operating systems, but both Solaris and Mac OS X are used actively in the lab. We're experienced with both SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Sybase ASE as open source alternatives as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Both Sun's Hotspot JVM as BEA Weblogic Jrockit JVM have been tuned in the lab. Our client software toolbox are developed in C# and .Net, and on the server side you'll be finding C++.