The distributed ASCI Supercomputer project
Henri E. Bal, Raoul A. F. Bhoedjang, Rutger F. H. Hofman, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs, Thilo Kielmann, Jason Maassen, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, John W. Romein, Luc Renambot, Tim Rühl, Ronald Veldema, Kees Verstoep, Aline Baggio, G.C. Ballintijn, Ihor Kuz, Guillaume Pierre, Maarten R. van Steen, Andy Tanenbaum, Gerben Doornbos, D.M. Germans · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2000
The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) is a homogeneous wide-area distributed system consisting of four cluster computers at different locations. DAS has been used for research on communication software, parallel languages and programming systems, schedulers, parallel applications, and distributed applications. The paper gives a preview of the most interesting research results obtained so far in the DAS project.