We describe Grindstone, a suite of programs for testing and calibrating
parallel performance measurement tools. The suite consists of nine
simple SPMD style PVM programs that demonstrate common communication
and computational bottlenecks that occur in parallel programs. In
addition, we provide a short case study that demonstrates the use of
the test suite on three performance tools for PVM. The results of the
case study showed that we were able to uncover bugs or other anomalies
in all three tools. The paper also describes how to acquire, compile,
and use the test suite.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-96-73