Prof. Schröder-Preikschat at LISHA

Prof. Schröder-Preikschat and two members of his workgroup will be at LISHA from November 19th till December 8th for a scientific visit in the realm of Project SNOW. The following activities have been planed for the visit:

• SNOW Project Workshop
  
  
• Requirement analysis and definition of protocols to integrate the PURE system into the SNOW platform
  
  The PURE system, in particular its high-performance process management subsystem, will integrate SNOW run-time support system. A detailed specification of how PURE will have to be adapted to fulfill the requirements of SNOW potential applications and how it will interact with other SNOW components will be produced during the visit.
  
  
• Requirements analysis and definition to support synchronization and cooperation of parallel embedded applications
  
  Fraunhofer FIRST work on engineering of embedded systems is of great value for the project, since it unveils a new application scenario for parallel computing. During the visit, the requirements for synchronization and cooperation needed to support such kind of applications in the SNOW platform will be specified.
  
  
• PURE system installation and adaptation
  
  The PURE system will be customized to execute on a hardware platform supported by the Brazilian partners. Having access to a running version of PURE will help the development of SNOW run-time support system.
  
  
• Know-how exchange on software component configuration (Danilo Beuche)
  
  Due to the strong application oriented nature of the SNOW platform, high configurability of its components is required to deliver maximum performance to all applications. The different approaches for component configuration, used by the partners in previous projects, will be discussed. From this discussion an integration path for these approaches will be produced.
  
  
• Know-how exchange on embedded system engineering (Friedrich Schön)
  
  As result of the analysis phase a technical report about state-of-the-art synchronization will be written. The focus will be on cooperation patterns and their representation, especially in a distributed environment.