Using the Cowichan Problems to Assess the Usability of Orca

  • Authors:
  • Gregory V. Wilson;Henri E. Bal

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The Cowichan problems are a suite for assessing the usability of parallel programming systems. The applications have been implemented in Orca, which is a parallel language based on shared objects. This article describes the Cowichan problems, the Orca language, and the experiment of writing the problems in Orca. The article describes the many useful lessons we learned about the design and implementation of Orca. It also gives the designers of other parallel programming systems an idea of what can be expected by using the Cowichan problems. The suite is well-documented and available to other users.