• Our first meeting was very succesful
• Our next meeting was May 9 and 10 in Palo Alto and here is a quick summary.
• Our third meeting was August 6 and 7 at Palo Alto and the public results from this will be posted at http://www.javagrande.org by mid september
• Our next meeting (see Draft Description) is November 13 in a public 3 hour session at SC98
• If you are confused please send mail

Further Links:

• General Resource on Java for Science and Engineering including all workshops and papers
• Presentation giving more detail on overall issues in HTML or Powerpoint
• The recent Java98 Conference (Palo Alto Feb 28--Mar1 98) including online papers and Photos
• Java98 Invited Presentation by James Gosling
• Prof. William Kahan's Invited Presentation at Java98 used material from the Borneo Project and Other Publications
• Results of First Meeting on Afternoon March 1 98

What is Java Grande?

This is use of Java for:

• High Performance Network Computing
• Scientific and Engineering Computation
• (Distributed) Modeling and Simulation
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Data Intensive Computing
• Communication and Computing Intensive Commercial and Academic Applications
• HPCC
• Computational Grids ........

What is Goal of Java Grande Forum?

• Java has potential to be a better environment for "Grande application development" than any previous languages such as Fortran and C++
• The Forum Goal is to develop community consensus and recommendations for either changes to Java or establishment of standards (frameworks) for "Grande" libraries and services
• These Language changes or frameworks are designed to realize "best ever Grande programming environment"