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The Test Platforms

The experiments were carried out on the following systems

The compilers and compilation flags are listed in Table 1.



Table 1: Compilers used
name note version flags
Pentium II
abf90 Absoft F90 compiler 1.01 -O
pgf90 Portland group F90 compiler 3.0-3 -O4
gcc GNU C compiler 2.95.1 -O5
Java (IBM) IBM JDK 1.3.0 -O
Java (Sun) Sun JDK 1.3.0 (beta) -O
Sun Untra 80
f90 Sun WorkShop F90 compiler 2.0 -fast
cc Sun WorkShop C compiler 5.0 -fast
Java Sun 1.3.0 (beta) -O
IBM Power3
f90 XL Fortran compiler for AIX 7.1.0.0 -O3 -qarch=pwr3 -qtune=pwr3
cc C for AIX Compiler 4.4.0.0 -O3 -qarch=pwr3 -qtune=pwr3
Java Java RTE 1.1.8 -O



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2000-08-16