This instrumentation grant enables the purchase of a Unix-based
multiprocessor system to develop tools for analysis and development of parallel and distributed programs. The
project includes a study of parallel implementation of protocols, development of coordination abstractions that
capture common patterns of process interaction in various applications, empirical evaluation of parallel flow
analysis algorithms, development of an implementation testbed for distributed and shared memory programs, and
development of a general parallel hydrologic routing system for hydraulic and hydrologic analysis of dams. The
multiprocessor system requested will be used to evaluate the performance benefits of parallelism in the analysis
algorithms and as a part of a network configuration to evaluate the performance of network/distributed protocols
and the throughput gains achieved by their parallel implementations.
