Two phases of the SICSA Multi-core Challenge have
gone past. The first challenge was to produce concordances of
books for sequences of words up to length N; and the second
to simulate the motion of N celestial bodies under gravity. We
took both challenges on the SCC, using C and the Linux Shell.
This paper is an account of the experiences gained. It also gives
a shorter account of the performance of other systems on the
same set of problems, as they provide benchmarks against which
the SCC performance can be compared with
