Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — FSMLabs Inc. announced today that it has begun a research collaboration with the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Institute of Technology. CERCS is formed by faculty members from the College of Computing and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. FSMLabs will provide RTLinux/Pro real-time control software to Georgia Institute of Technology for both research and use in advanced systems classes. Collaborative work will focus on quality of service and application of hard real-time to enterprise and decision support issues.

Professor Calton Pu provided the following summary of planned RTLinux use at Georgia Tech:

“In the Infossphere Project, we are developing concepts and software for Internet-scale applications driven by by information flow such as real-time decision support, digital libraries, and electronic commerce. A uniform abstraction called Infopipe supports information flow at the operating system kernel level, the middleware level, and the data management level. Infopipes are defined explicitly by the syntax, semantics and quality of service (QoS) requirements of information flows. Tools create the code that carries information from source to destination according to the Infopipe specifications. Applications such as networked embedded systems will demonstrate the Infopipe concept and software tools. When building Infopipes and applications that require QoS support, we will need kernel level support provided by real-time operating system facilities such as those in RTLinux. As we incorporate QoS support into the Infopipe software toolkit, we will build it on RTLinux and evaluate both the support provided by the RTLinux kernel and Infopipe.”

“We offer a number of systems courses at Georgia Tech, both in the College of Computing and in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Examples of such courses include Embedded Systems Introduction to Real-Time System Concepts and Implementation, both being co-taught by Prof. Calton Pu and Prof. Karsten Schwan. In each of these courses, there is a significant project that includes the construction of systems (typically software systems) that provide real-time support. RTLinux will be one of the best-suited environments for the students to build their projects in these courses.”

 
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