1. Dtsi/Sol CEA System Software Activities 125/02/2005VD R&D topics Designing tools and system software for:  The management of parallelism Mono-processor system Distributed Multi-processor system  Real time environment (I&C)  Safety-critical applications (reliability, dependability) Main projects:  Supercomputer realization of an integrated operating system to manage all the hardware resources of a massively parallel machine  OASIS A complete tools suite with a dedicated safety-oriented real time kernel for safety-classified system

2. Dtsi/Sol CEA System Software Activities 225/02/2005VD Supercomputer system software Main functional features:  Management of 3 level of parallelism Jobs Tasks SIMD  Automatic decomposition of Jobs and Tasks  Automatic dispatching and scheduling Non functional features:  Security design Protection against erroneous or malicious user or “administrative” command  Detection and confinement mechanisms  Safety design Fault-tolerance migration and check/restart-point Protection against critical hardware failure (cooling devices, high temperature, etc…)  Single failure criterion

3. Dtsi/Sol CEA System Software Activities 325/02/2005VD OASIS project: a method and its supporting tools Aim of OASIS project:  New rigorous and reliable method to design and implement safety-critical multitasking applications compound of advanced real time functionalities  To guarantee responses in specified times  To ensure predictable and reproducible behaviors The application behavior is deterministic Code Generation Tools Suite:  Compiler of a semi-formal language that includes the ANSI C  Complete application code and runtime code generation  Automatic sizing of all communication buffers  Dedicated memory segmentation of all binaries (data and instructions)  Dedicated link edition, with MMU tables optionally  Additional tools for testing, CPU sizing and actual simulation (on POSIX) Safety-oriented real time Kernel:  Current naked targets are 68040/60 or IA32  Generic, time-triggered et safety-oriented  Ensure the detection and the confinement of anomalies  The execution is actually real time and deterministic Errors in a multitasking system have deterministic impact

4. Dtsi/Sol CEA System Software Activities 425/02/2005VD PhDs Automatic sizing of distributed architecture and its mathematical proof: passed by Ch. Aussaguès, 1998, 11/12 Static analysis of dynamic behaviors thanks to automatic abstraction and model-checking: passed by I. Quéteuil, 2001, 29/01 Calculation of safe upper bounds of execution duration with cache memory: passed by S. Louise 2002, 21/01 Design, study and implementation of a fault-tolerant predictable synchronous communication protocol over off- the-shelf components: by D. Chabrol, in progress since 2003, 10/03 => OASIS version for multiprocessor architecture

5. Dtsi/Sol CEA System Software Activities 525/02/2005VD Industrialization success Supercomputer:  Delivered to final users and in operation 24h/24 for 2 years  No system software failure recorded OASIS with AREVA/Framatome-ANP:  Industrialization planned mid2003-mid2005 « Qualified Display System OASIS based » project A part of 1E safety-classified I&C system of the EPR (European pressurized reactor) qualification of all OASIS tools and its system software  Full management of a standard IA32/PC-AT board PS/2, GPU, touch screen, FlashIDE, Ethernet Control of Chipsets (E7501, etc.) OASIS with SMIE (a French SME leading the world market of crane anti-collision system)  Initialization achieved in early 2003