ESPRIT Project 5417 - BECAUSE - is concerned with the benchmarking of
parallel computer architectures for computer intensive scientific and
engineering applications. Fluid flow, semi-conductor modelling and ele
ctromagnetic field simulation software was profiled on a range of exam
ple applications and sizes. The profiling results were used to select
the algorithms and functions that ought to be included in the Because
Benchmark Set (BBS). This paper reviews the BBS results obtained on th
e 'control' sequential architecture computer. The results show consist
ent performance with some interesting Variations in achieved Mflops.