Subject: how to uncompress .shar file

From: Tng Chee Hiong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 21:09:53 +0800

PARKBENCH (PARallel Kernels and
BENCHmarks)

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The PARKBENCH (PARallel Kernels and BENCHmarks) committee, originally
called the Parallel Benchmark Working Group (PBWG), was founded at
Supercomputing '92. The objectives of the group are the following: 

 1. To establish a comprehensive set of parallel benchmarks that is generally
   accepted by both users and vendors of parallel systems. 
 2. To provide a focus for parallel benchmark activities and avoid unnecessary
   duplication of effort and proliferation of benchmarks. 
 3. To set standards for benchmarking methodology and result-reporting together
   with a control database/repository for both the benchmarks and the results. 
 4. To make the benchmarks and results freely available in the public domain. 

The initial focus of the parallel benchmarks is on the new generation of scalable
distributed-memory message-passing architectures for which there is a notable lack
of existing benchmarks. The initial benchmark release concentrates on Fortran 77
message-passing codes using the widely available PVM message passing interface
for portability. Future versions will undoubtedly adopt the proposed MPI interface,
when this is fully defined and becomes generally accepted. The committee's aim,
however, is to cover all parallel architectures, and this is expected to be achieved in
the near-term by producing versions of the benchmark codes using Fortran 90 and 
High Performance Fortran (HPF) over PVM. 

For more information about PARKBENCH, see the PARKBENCH paper. The email
address for the PARKBENCH committee is 
[email-masked]

file    parkbench/readme
for     overview of parkbench

file    parkbench/parkbench.ps
#       postscript file containing the current version
#       of a paper describing the activity.

file    parkbench/submission
#       Submission form for compact applications.

file    parkbench/linalg.tar.z.uu
#       Parallel linear algebra benchmarks described in
#       section 4.2.1 of the PARKBENCH report distributed at
#       Supercomputing '93 on November 17, 1993.

file    parkbench/lowlev_1.0.tar.z.uu
#       Low-level benchmarks described in chapter 3 of the
#       PARKBENCH report distributed at Supercomputing '93
#       on November 17, 1993.

file    parkbench/comm.archive
#       archive: contains the correspondences of the PBWG committee
#       to retrieve from netlib type: send comm.archive from parkbench
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 2/26/93 (3439 bytes).

file    parkbench/lowlevel.archive
#       lowlevel.archive: contains the correspondences of the PBWG 
#       low-level subcommittee
#       -----------------------------------

file    parkbench/method.archive
#       method.archive: contains the correspondences of the PBWG 
#       methodology subcommittee
#       -----------------------------------

file    parkbench/compactapp.archive
#       compactapp.archive: contains the correspondences of the PBWG 
#       compact applications subcommittee
#       -----------------------------------

file    parkbench/kernel.archive
#       kernel.archive: contains the correspondences of the PBWG 
#       kernel subcommittee
#       -----------------------------------

file    parkbench/guide_for_reporting.ps
#       guide_for_reporting.ps: contains a proposed guidelines for
#       reporting performance results.
#       This file is a postscript file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (24892 bytes).

file    parkbench/npb.uu
#       npb.uu: contains the sequential version of the NAS parallel benchmark
#       to retrieve from netlib type: send npb.uu from parkbench
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 4/7/94 (378189 bytes).

file    parkbench/npb-codes.tar.z.uu
#       npb-codes.tar.z.uu: contains the NASA in-house parallel
#       implementations of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks for the 
#       Intel iPSC and the CM-2.
#       This file is a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       --------------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/24/94 (1563760 bytes)

file    parkbench/npb-pvm.shar
#       npb-pvm.shar: contains the NASA in-house parallel
#       implementations of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks for PVM 3.3.
#       This file is a shar file.
#       --------------------------------------
#       Last updated 9/30/94 (852979 bytes)

file    parkbench/isuite.uu
#       isuite.uu: contains the isuite parallel benchmark
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (34303 bytes).

file    parkbench/electromagnetic.uu
#       electromagnetic.uu: contains the electromagnetic parallel benchmark
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (150898 bytes).

file    parkbench/general.uu
#       general.uu: contains the general parallel benchmark
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (344392 bytes).

file    parkbench/physics.uu
#       physics.uu: contains the physics parallel benchmark
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (975800 bytes).

file    parkbench/purdue-set.uu
#       purdue-set.uu: contains the purdue-set parallel benchmark
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (124849 bytes).

file    parkbench/intrinsics.uu
#       intrinsics.uu: contains the intrinsics parallel benchmark
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (81621 bytes).

file    parkbench/weather-climate.uu
#       weather-climate.uu: contains the weather-climate parallel benchmark
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (194462 bytes).

file    parkbench/genesis.uu
#       genesis.uu: contains the genesis parallel benchmark
#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 3/4/93 (1095744 bytes).

file    parkbench/SP.tar.Z
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 2/14/94 (4690328 bytes).

file    parkbench/cmpl-ben.z.uu
#       Low Level HPF Compiler Benchmarks
#       The benchmark suite comprises several simple, synthetic applications 
#       which test several aspects of  HPF compilation. The current version 
#       of the suite addresses the basic features of HPF, and it is designed 
#       to measure performance of early implementations of the compiler. 
#       They concentrate on testing parallel implementation of explicitly 
#       parallel statements, i.e., array assignments, FORALL statements, 
#       INDEPENDENT DO loops, and intrinsic functions with different mapping 
#       directives. In addition, the low level compiler benchmarks address 
#       problem of passing distributed arrays as arguments to subprograms.
#
#       The language features not included in the HPF subset are not addressed 
#       in this release of the suite. The next releases will contain more 
#       kernels that will address all features of HPF, and also they will be 
#       sensitive to advanced compiler transformations.
#
#       The codes included in this suite are either adopted from existing 
#       benchmark suites, NAS suite, Livermore Loops, and the Purdue Set, 
#       or are developed at Syracuse University.

#       This file a tar, compress, uuencode file.
#       -----------------------------------
#       Last updated 2/25/94 (14313 bytes)

file    parkbench/solver_pvm.tar
file    parkbench/solver_parmacs.tar
for     This  application generates quark propagators from a  background gauge
,       configuration and a fermionic source. This is equivalent to solving
,       M psi = source
,       where psi is the quark propagator and M (a function operating on psi)
,       depends on the gauge fields.
,       The benchmark performs a cut down version of this operation.

file    parkbench/Seis1.1.tar
for     ARCO Seis1.1 code
,       Seis1.1 is designed to be a portable, parallel environment
,       for developing, benchmarking, and sharing seismic application codes. The
,       underlying model for parallel computation is message passing, using a
,       system independent message passing layer. Sample implementations for PVM
,       and NX are included.

file    parkbench/polmpf77.tar.Z
file    parkbench/polmpf77.tar.z.uu
file    parkbench/polmphpf.tar.Z
file    parkbench/polmphpf.tar.z.uu
file    parkbench/polmppvm.tar.Z
file    parkbench/polmppvm.tar.z.uu
file    parkbench/polmpparmacs.tar.Z
file    parkbench/polmpparmacs.tar.z.uu
for     The Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Multiprocessing Program (POLMP) 
,       project was created to develop numerical algorithms for shallow sea 
,       3D hydrodynamic models that run efficiently on modern parallel 
,       computers. A code follows the wind induced flow in a closed 
,       rectangular basin including a number of arbitrary land areas. 
,       The model solves a set of hydrodynamic partial differential equations, 
,       subject to a set of initial conditions, using a mixed 
,       explicit/implicit forward time integration scheme. The explicit 
,       component corresponds to a horizontal finite difference scheme and 
,       the implicit to a functional expansion in the vertical. 
,       This is the sequential Fortran 77 version.
,       This is the sequential HPF version.
,       This is the sequential PVM version.
,       This is the sequential Parmacs version.

file    parkbench/pstswm.tar.Z
file    parkbench/pstswm.tar.z.uu
for     PSTSWM Version 2.0 
,       PSTSWM Version 2.0 is a message-passing benchmark code and 
,       parallel algorithm testbed that solves the nonlinear shallow 
,       water equations using the spectral transform method. The spectral 
,       transform algorithm of the code follows closely how CCM2, the 
,       NCAR Community Climate Model, handles the dynamical part of the 
,       primitive equations, and the parallel algorithms implemented in the 
,       model include those currently used in the message-passing parallel 
,       implementation of CCM2. PSTSWM was written by Patrick Worley of 
,       Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ian Foster of Argonne National 
,       Laboratory, and is based partly on previous parallel algorithm 
,       research by John Drake, David Walker, and Patrick Worley of Oak 
,       Ridge National Laboratory. Both the code development and parallel 
,       algorithms research were funded by the DOE Computer Hardware, 
,       Advanced Mathematics, and Model Physics (CHAMMP) program.
,       PSTSWM is a parallel implementation of a sequential code (STSWM 2.0) 
,       written by James Hack and Ruediger Jakob at NCAR to solve the 
,       shallow water equations on a sphere using the spectral transform method.

file    parkbench/fftpb
for     1-D FFT benchmark
,       This is a sample code implementing the ParkBench 1-D FFT benchmark.  
,       It actually performs a large 1-D linear convolution using 
,       real-to-complex and complex-to-real FFTs.