Portable Application Benchmarks.

A number of groups are beginning to assemble collections of ``real'' application programs that can be used to measure performance on parallel machines. Two of these such efforts are the SPLASH project at Stanford [25] and the Perfect Club Benchmarks [2]. Portable versions of the codes make them much more useful. The SPLASH codes have been converted to use p4's shared-memory operations, and work is in progress to convert the Perfect Club benchmarks to p4's message-passing operations.