A new set of benchmarks has been developed for the performance evaluation of highly parallel supercomput-

A new set of benchmarks has been developed for the performance evaluation of highly parallel supercomputers. These benchmarks consist of ve \parallel kernel" benchmarks and three \simulated application" benchmarks. Together they mimic the computation and data movement c haracteristics of large scale computational uid dynamics applications.The principal distinguishing feature of these benchmarks is their \pencil and paper" speci cation | all details of these benchmarks are speci ed only algorithmically. In this way m a n y of the di culties associated with conventional benchmarking approaches on highly parallel systems are avoided.

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During the past several years, an AH-1 Cobra aircraft at the NASA Ames Research Center has been instrumented with tri-axial accelerometers and a data acquisition system to support the experimental study of in-flight transmission vibration patterns. This paper describes the on-board HealthWatch system and presents important statistical analyses of the collected data sets. These analyses provide insight into how transmission vibration responds to several factors typically related to health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS), such as maneuver condition, order of execution, and pilot differences. Although a large database of flight recordings has been collected, these results focus on an overall analysis of planetary ring gear data that were recorded in two sets of flights. It is shown that variability due to torque is a major factor to be considered in real-time HUMS design and that certain steady state maneuvers yield a dramatically higher percentage of stationary recordings. Finally, it is conjectured that multi-axis recording may have previously unrecognized advantages for signal conditioning or analysis.

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