In this paper, we give an overview of the Cedar multiprocessor and present recent performance results. These include the performance of some computational kernels and the Perfect Benchmarks. We also present a methodology for judging parallel system performance and apply this methodology to Cedar, Cray YMP-8, and Thinking Machines CM-5.

Abstract The paper reports on the status of the Fortran translator for the Cedar computer at the end of March 1991. A brief description of the Cedar Fortran language is followed by a discussion of the Fortran‐77 to Cedar Fortran parallelizer that describes the techniques currently being implemented. A collection of experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the current implementation, and point toward new approaches to be incorporated into the system in the near future.