FORTRAN CALLABLE FUNCTION TO RETURN ACCUMULATED CPU TIME FOR THE CALLING TASK. CALL SEQUENCE - TICKS = GETCPU() ! NO PARM IS NECESSARY 60 TICKS = 1 SECOND SO TO COMPUTE CPU TIME IN SECONDS CPUSEC = GETCPU()/60. NOTE - GETCPU USES SEND/RECEIVES TO ...CPT TO RETREIVE THE CPU TIME. FOR THIS REASON, GETCPU SHOULD NOT BE CALLED AN EXCESSIVE NO. OF TIMES WITH LITTLE TIME (1 SEC) BETWEEN CALLS OR SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MAY BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED. A CALL TO RSD1I (SAME ROUTINE USED IN SET UP FOR SSD RECEIVE) IS NEEDED TO SET UP FOR THE FUNCION CALL TO GETCPU. CALL RSD1I ! ONLY ONE CALL TO RSD1I NEEDS TO BE MADE FOR ! BOTH SSD AND GETCPU SET-UP. TASK BUILD COMMAND FILE MUST INCLUDE EITHER - 1) DB2:[350,2]RSD1O, DB2:[350,2]GETCPU OR 2) DB2:[350,2]ARAP/LIB TO INCLUDE THE NECESSARY ROUTINES.