Automating software development

Article Abstract:

Software packages for computer-aided software engineering (CASE) are being redefined to handle different kinds of design issues. One relatively new design issue is the integration between CASE tools. Current design tools are inadequate for integrating analysis, code generation, design and testing tools. DEC, IBM and HP are each working to provide standards for CASE repositories that will enable CASE tool vendors to write interfaces to a common communication standard. DEC's Cohesion standard, for example, would allow all types of software development to be supported for VMS and Ultrix operating systems employed by DEC workstations. IBM's CASE strategy supports most traditional real-time methods as well as many object-oriented techniques. HP's SoftBench package provides a CASE tool integration platform under a distributed, Open Software Foundation Motif environment.

Prepackaged software, Instruments to measure electricity, Usage, Product information, Software engineering, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Cover Story, Hewlett-Packard Co., HWP, Automation, Computer aided software engineering, Digital Equipment Corp., DEC, Software Packages, Market Analysis, Integrated Approach, Computer-Aided Software Engineering, SoftBench (CASE software), Cohesion (CASE software)

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The power of parallelism

Article Abstract:

Researchers and manufacturers are developing supercomputers and massively parallel processing (MPP) machines to meet the ever-increasing needs of computer users. The MPP systems that already exist can process information at rates that approach the one trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops). While some hardware is available to US businesses, the costs are still astronomical, and there is an insufficient amount of software to make the most of the technology. The flurry of activity designed to address the needs of semiconductor firms, medical treatments, aircrafts and vehicle construction does not yet have a unifying standard. The two major companies in the MPP arena are Thinking Machines Corp and Intel Corp's Supercomputer Systems Division.

Research, Computer industry, Industrial research, Supercomputers, Supercomputer, Performance improvement (Computers), Research and Development, Trends, Industry Analysis, Performance Improvement, Thinking Machines Corp., Massive Parallelism, Intel Corp. Supercomputer Systems Div.

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