Notice: DAS-2 has been succeeded by the
DAS-3 system.
DAS-2 is a wide-area distributed computer of 200 Dual Pentium-III nodes.
The machine is built out of clusters of workstations,
which are interconnected by
SurfNet,
the Dutch university Internet backbone for wide-area communication, whereas
Myrinet,
a popular multi-Gigabit LAN, is used for local communication.
The clusters are located at five Dutch Universities: