The Computer Systems Section performs research and teaching in the areas of distributed systems, advanced internet applications, parallel programming, operating systems, security, grid, and related areas.

The Computer Systems Section consists of 3 research groups: High Performance Distributed Computing; Systems & Security; Large Scale Distributed Systems. We take part in ASCI, the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, which offers graduate courses to our PhD students and opportunies for the senior researchers to meet. We also take part in SIKS, the School for Information and Knowledge Systems.

The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer 3 (DAS-3) is a computer science grid with a revolutionary optical interconnect. DAS-3 is a wide-area distributed system designed by the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging ASCI. As one of its distinguishing features, DAS-3 employs a very novel internal wide area interconnect based on light paths. The DAS-3 system is used for research on parallel and distributed computing and imaging. DAS-3 consists of 272 compute nodes, spread out over five clusters, located at four universities. More information see the DAS-3 site.