NAME

     bsp_time - high-precision real-time clock.

C SYNOPSIS

     #include "bsp.h"

     double bsp_time();

FORTRAN SYNOPSIS

     INCLUDE 'fbsp.h'

     DOUBLE PRECISION FUNCTION bsptime()

DESCRIPTION

     The function bsp_time provides access  to  a  high-precision
     clock. The accuracy of the timer is implementation specific.
     The function is a local operation of each process,  and  can
     be  issued  at  any point after bsp_begin. The result of the
     timer is the time in seconds since bsp_begin. The  semantics
     of  bsp_time  is  as though there are bsp_nprocs timers, one
     per process.  BSPlib does  not  impose  any  synchronisation
     requirements between the timers on different processes.

SEE ALSO

     bsplib(3)

     ``BSPlib: The BSP Programming Library'' Jonathan M. D. Hill,
     Bill  McColl,  Dan  C.  Stefanescu,  Mark W. Goudreau, Kevin
     Lang, Satish B. Rao, , Torsten Suel, Thanasis Tsantilas, and
     Rob  Bisseling.  Parallel  Computing,  to  appear  1998. See
     http://www.bsp-worldwide.org for more details.

BUGS

     Problems  and  bug  reports  should  be  mailed  to  bsplib-
     bugs@comlab.ox.ac.uk

AUTHORS

     The Oxford BSP Toolset implementation of BSPlib was  written
     by Jonathan.Hill@comlab.ox.ac.uk
     http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/people/jonathan.hill.html