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CAPERS

• CAPERS is Cable Adapter for Parallel Execution and Rapid Synchronization
• Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Same hardware as PLIP, different protocol
• AFAPI (Aggregate Function API) functions directly access parallel port registers from user process
• Requires either giveioperm() Linux kernel patch or root
• http://garage.ecn.purdue.edu/~papers