Project No.: 5003-051332 01.09.97 - 31.01.2000 (second series)

Project leader: Prof. Roger D. Hersch, Laboratoire de Systèmes Périphériques (LSP), Département d’informatique, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL)
e-mail: hersch@di.epfl.ch

Name of project: CASPA: Computer-aided synthesis of parallel/distributed applications under Windows NT

Partners:
Alain Farine, AF-CSE Computer Science Engineering, Lausanne
Erel Rosenberg, Correlation Systems, Tel Aviv

Funding: Sfr 296,478.-

Summary:
Windows NT is becoming the mainstream operating system used in industry and commerce for personal computers and PC networks. Instead of expensive, massively parallel systems, the future will see clusters of Windows NT PCs (with several processors) being configured into low-cost servers over high-speed LANs. The present project aims to develop a computer-aided tool (CASPA) for the specification and synthesis of parallel and distributed applications via Windows NT. Thanks to these applications, programmers can monitor the flow of data and arguments between operations graphically or by programs. CASPA automatically translates the specifications into a parallel program. An important application of this tool is the Teraserver, which is already supported by the SPP ICS.

Cooperation:
Partners are Alain Farine (AF-CSE, Lausanne) and Erel Rosenberg (Correlation Systems, Tel Aviv) as well as other partners in Switzerland (Prof. Anton Gunzinger/ETHZ, CERN/Geneva) who will be responsible for marketing.