The serial performance standards for the BBS test program

ESPRIT Project 5417 - BECAUSE - is concerned with the benchmarking of parallel computer architectures for computer intensive scientific and engineering applications. Fluid flow, semi-conductor modelling and electromagnetic field simulation software was profiled on a range of example applications and sizes. The profiling results were used to select the algorithms and functions that ought to be included in the Because Benchmark Set (BBS). This paper reviews the BBS results obtained on the ·control’ sequential architecture computer. The results show consistent performance with some interesting variations in achieved Mflops.