Michael W. Cruess

Experiences with SLALOM on the distributed Pleiades/ESP system

The paper describes experiences gained during the process of Implementing a standard serial benchmark (SLALOM) on a distributed computing system (Pleiades running ESP/C++). Based on a real problem In computer graphics, SLALOM Is a timed benchmark that Includes problem set-up and I/O costs. The purpose of our experiments has been to maximize the speedup of a distributed implementation of SLALOM when compared to Its serial implementation. As a result of these experiments, we have developed several guidelines for adapting algorithms for distributed systems.

Experiences in high performance computing with Pleiades and ESP

This paper describes experiences gained during the process of implementing a standard serial bench-mark (SLALOM) on a distributed computing system (Pleiades running ESP). The purpose of the authors experiments has been to maximize the speedup of a distributed implementation of SLALOM when compared to its serial implementation.<<ETX>>

The binary compatibility standard

An overview is presented of the binary compatibility standard (BCS) for the Motorola M88000 family. This standard has defined the interface between the operating system kernel and the binary executable application. Specifically, the BCS describes the data types, common object file format, the memory map, entry into the user process, signal handling, common header file values, system calls. and required files and installation procedures. The result is a detailed standard that can be used by systems and applications developers to separately develop systems and applications that will run together without further modifications. In addition, when developing software packages, application vendors will no longer have to develop several versions of the same package because the same version will run on a wide range of systems. In turn, system vendors will be able to provide their users with a large library of applications.<<ETX>>