The DASH Project: An Overview
David P. Anderson, Domenico Ferrari · 1988
The DASH project at UC Berkeley is studying problems arising in the design of large, high-performance distributed systems, and is building an experimental system. The system's major design goals are centered in three areas: 1) IPC performance, 2) global architecture, and 3) local architecture. In each of these areas, vertically integrated mechanisms are used to achieve design goals, while an open system structure is main-tained where possible. This report describes the motivation and principles of the DASH project, and sketches the current design of the DASH system.