Nova Southeastern University

Information Assurance Laboratory

The Secure and Robust Distributed Systems (SARDIS) Laboratory is a significant research facility for faculty, staff, and students who are involved in information assurance research efforts. SARDIS enables researchers to identify and evaluate new technologies on a variety of levels in support of security, reliability, availability, and performance applied to computer and information systems in distributed environments. This includes the study of enterprise, grid, wireless, ad-hoc and ubiquitous systems. The laboratory is also dedicated for use in the IA educational programs of the university and in its partnerships with other institutions regarding both education and research.

The SARDIS laboratory is designed to support the computing needs associated with problem modeling and simulation as well as limited scale experimental networks. Thus the system architectures are designed to be flexible and adaptable. This includes both a production level system and multiple localized clusters that could be reconfigured to create a larger and more complex cluster of nodes.