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Cloud computing platforms are considered a promising approach for provision of High Performance Computing services. HPC Storm is an ongoing research project that is proposing a component-oriented view of HPC resources in a cloud, towards the development and provision of large-scale parallel computing systems. In this context, a system of contracts have been proposed for representing functional and non-functional properties of components. This paper is interested in evaluating the use of the Circus specification language for specifying the functional and behavioral subset of computational component contracts. For that, a process is proposed for their development and some case studies with real programs in the HPC domain are used to validate it in practice.
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Marcilon, T.B., de Carvalho Junior, F.H. (2013). Derivation and Verification of Parallel Components for the Needs of an HPC Cloud. In: Iyoda, J., de Moura, L. (eds) Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications. SBMF 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41071-0_5
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