The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vespa \Ves"pa\ (v[e^]s"p[.a]), prop. n. [L., wasp.] (Zool.)
   A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and
   hornets.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (17 December 2009):

Very Efficient Speculative Parallel Architecture
VESPA

    (VESPA, Portuguese for "wasp") An Edinburgh
   University project using speculative multithreading to
   improve single-application and multiprogramming performance,
   and to increase fault tolerance and reliability. The project
   aims to develop a compilation environment to generate
   efficient speculative parallel code, including speculative
   parallelisation and speculative helper threads.  Other
   research involves the development of optimized thread-level
   speculative architectures and novel uses of speculative
   multithreading, such as fault-tolerance.

   VESPA Home
   (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mc/Projects/VESPA/vespa.html).

   (2008-04-04)