CASCH: A Tool for Computer-Aided Scheduling

of parallelization—potentially improving their performance—and, because manu-ally performing these tasks can be tedious, they also help experienced programmers. Even though a large body of literature exists in the area of scheduling and map-ping 1–3 (see the “Recent research ” side-bar), people have exploited only a part of it for practical purposes. While some have proposed software tools that support auto-matic scheduling and mapping, those tools ’ main function is to provide a simu-lation environment.4 They can help us understand how scheduling and mapping algorithms operate and behave, but the