A Multithreaded Java Grande Benchmark Suite

Increasing interest is being shown in the use of Java for larg e scale orGrandeapplications. This new use of Java places specific demands on the Java execution envi ronments that can be tested using the Java Grande benchmark suite [5], [6], [7]. The large processing r equirements of Grandeapplications makes parallelisation of interest. A suite of shared memory paral lel benchmarks has been developed from the serial Java Grande benchmark suite, using Java native threa ds. The contents of the suite are described, and results presented for a Sun HPC 6500, an SGI Origin 3000 an d a Compaq ES40.