Danlaw Acquires BSC Spin-Off Maspatechnologies, Elevating Rapita Systems Multicore Capabilities
Summary
Dan McClung, CEO of Rapita Systems group, stated: “This acquisition demonstrates our commitment to supporting the future of the embedded industry, which will depend upon the adoption of multicore technology. As part of this project, Maspatechnologies provided timing analysis and characterization services to Airbus that were key to building a CAST-32A compliant certification argument for this multicore avionics system. This success has a tangible impact and demonstrates the return on investment that the funding of BSC can deliver.” Rapita Systems group provides on-target software verification tools and services globally to the embedded aerospace and automotive electronics industries. BSC has a dual role: providing infrastructure and a supercomputing service for Spanish and European scientists and generating knowledge and technology to be transferred to society. It is a member of the top-level European research infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) and manages the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES).