S. Tucker Taft
ABSTRACT
SPARK is a verifiable subset of Ada which has been in use for over 20 years for developing the most critical parts of complex real-time applications [1][2]. A restricted subset of the Ada tasking model is included in the newer versions of SPARK ("RavenSPARK"), but this is a very static model, with a fixed number of tasks and minimal task interaction [3]. In this presentation we will describe an extension of SPARK to support safe highly parallel programming, targeted at the growing number of multicore and manycore processors appearing on the market today.
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- Bringing safe, dynamic parallel programming to the spark verifiable subset of ada
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