For MPP's to solve new and interesting problems, they must support the development the development of sophisticaed algoriths on very large data sets. Successful develoment depends strongly on the speed of the execute-fixcycle. Sequential machines cannot provide sufficiently fast execution available on MPP's today neglec the development. Those systems which to address the fix time commonly demand drastic sacrifices in execution speed. Between these two extremes is the middle ground shere development must occur. We have implemented a new algorithms to solve an optimiation problem for an electrical power system, a problem large enaough to reuire significant computattional rsources. TO Help abstract the communication and layout requirement of the problem away from the main algorithm, we have developeed a smalll object system liable solution to ehe problem and a general approach to solving this class of problems