The Computer Systems Section does research and teaching in the areas
of distributed systems, advanced Internet applications, parallel programming,
scientific visualization, and related areas. We also do research on interactive
intelligent distributed systems and multiagent systems. We have 13 faculty
members and numerous postdocs and Ph.D. students. We take part in the
ASCI, the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, which offers graduate
courses to our Ph.D. students and opportunies for the senior researchers
to meet. We also take part in SIKS, the School for Information and Knowledge
Systems, The hyperlinks provided above will introduce us to you and tell
you more about our work.
The Section has a 72-node cluster computer for its own research. Each
node consists of two 1-GHz Pentium IIIs configured as a two-way shared
memory multiprocessor, for a total of 144 CPUs. Of the 72 nodes, 70 have
512 MB of RAM; the other two have 2 GB each for doing experiments where
large memories are needed. All the nodes are connected by a fast Myrinet
network. The entire cluster is connected by a wide-area network to similar
systems at other universities participating in ASCI. For more information
about this system, called DAS-2 (Distributed ASCI Supercomputer), click here. |
