Pepetela, escritor intempestivo

O objectivo do presente ensaio é o de levar a cabo uma análise da questão da contemporaneidade na obra do autor angolano Pepetela (Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos), a partir da base teórica de “Contemporâneo como intempestivo” elaborada pelo filósofo Giorgio Agamben. Num contexto complexo como o de Angola em formação, numa realidade mergulhada nos problemas duma nação multi étnica e com um passado colonial marcado, a luta pela conquista duma identidade comum e da liberdade individual constituem umas das preocupações principais, unidas às complexas relações com o que permanece da cultura do colonizador.

CIDER - envisaging a COTS communication infrastructure for evolutionary dependable real-time systems

It is foreseen that future dependable real-time systems will also have to meet flexibility, adaptability and reconfigurability requirements. Considering the distributed nature of these computing systems, a communication infrastructure that permits to fulfil all those requirements is thus of major importance. Although Ethernet has been used primarily as an information network, there is a strong belief that some very recent technological advances will enable its use in dependable applications with real-time requirements. Indeed, several recently standardised mechanisms associated with Switched-Ethernet seem to be promising to enable communication infrastructures to support hard real-time, reliability and flexible distributed applications. This paper describes the motivation and the work being developed within the CIDER (Communication Infrastructure for Dependable Evolvable Real-Time Systems) project, which envisages the use of COTS Ethernet as an enabling technology for future dependable real-time systems. It is foreseen that the CIDER approach will constitute a relevant stream of research since it will bring together cutting edge research in the field of real-time and dependable distributed systems and the industrial eagerness to expand Ethernet responsabilities to support dependable real-time applications.