Work to do / Issues to Resolve

Build a secure MPI server (rather than using mpirun which uses rsh). This should speed up the starting and stopping of jobs.
The MPICH package contains a collection of benchmarking code to test different aspects of system performance. We should run these and see if there are any weaknesses in the system that need repair.

The communications performance test suite is not ANSI C compliant. Bring the code up to compliance.
The ANSI C compliant programs require a fair amount of debugging.
The writing of some test routines was never completed. Write these tests.
Add xmgr functionality to the graphing routines.

In /proc/cpuinfo it seems to indicate that max memory is 127 Mbytes. What does this refer to?
Install the latest egcs compiler.
Can we find a way to disable the keyboard polling so that we can throw them away? The systems don't boot properly without keyboards.