DAS-6: A distributed research ecosystem for trusted data analytics

This project proposes to build the 6th generation of the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer, DAS-6. The challenge of this project is to study the feasibility of a next generation trusted ecosystem to face the proliferation of many developments in Computer Science, such as streaming applications, edge and fog computing, in-network processing, and complex security and trust policies. The DAS-6 research ecosystem will consist of 6 clusters with different functionalities, integrated into a coherent shared distributed system that is designed to fit the current research agenda of numerous Computer Science groups. We have identified 67 funded research projects that will use DAS-6 once it is operational, especially in systems areas like trust, security, blockchains, scheduling, big data, Internet-of-Things, and accelerators and in application areas like artificial intelligence, deep learning, and eScience.