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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Java Grande Forum III Hyatt Rickey's Palo Alto CA on Aug 6-7 1998. Foils prepared Aug 15 98
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Summary Remarks and Institutional Conclusions
Third Java Grande Forum Meeting

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1 Java Grande Forum III Palo Alto August 6-7 98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/javaforcse
2 Why are we here -- Where are we?
3 Where the Forum is -- Continued
4 What Should We Accomplish This Meeting?
5 SC98 Panels Orlando
6 SC98 Speakers

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Foil 1 Java Grande Forum III Palo Alto August 6-7 98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/javaforcse

From Java Grande Forum Overview Java Grande Forum III Hyatt Rickey's Palo Alto CA -- Aug 6-7 1998. *
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Geoffrey Fox
Syracuse University
NPAC
111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100
3154432163
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Foil 2 Why are we here -- Where are we?

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Goal of forum is to take steps to ensure that Java can be the best possible Grand Programming Environment
Grande applications are large-scale, science/engineering, networked, computationally/data intense commercial .....
Java Grande workshops: December 96(Syracuse), June 97 (Las Vegas), February-March 98(Palo Alto) established interest
Java Grande Forum meetings: March 1, May 9-10, Aug 6-7 (all Palo Alto), November 13 (SC98 Panels)
Some Related events:
  • "Java Grande Europe" Sept 2 as part of Europar, Southampton
  • "Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing" workshop as part of IPPS99 Puerto Rico April 12-16 99
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Foil 3 Where the Forum is -- Continued

From Java Grande Forum Overview Java Grande Forum III Hyatt Rickey's Palo Alto CA -- Aug 6-7 1998. *
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Organization of Forum:
  • 2 Working Groups: Numerics and Concurrency/Applications chaired by Boisvert/Pozo and Gannon/Caromel respectively
  • Forum supported by Sun with contact Siamak Hassanzadeh
  • Forum coordinated by Geoffrey Fox, George Thiruvathukal
We produced as a result of last meeting
  • General Description of Forum; detailed reports from 2 WG's
  • Started Community activities -- Numerics classes, Benchmark collection
  • Started interaction with Sun -- reply to Gosling's proposals
  • Started interaction with "Grande community"
  • SC98 agreement to 3 hour session
  • Discussed but did not implement federal contacts (funding)
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Foil 4 What Should We Accomplish This Meeting?

From Java Grande Forum Overview Java Grande Forum III Hyatt Rickey's Palo Alto CA -- Aug 6-7 1998. *
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Continue good progress on reports and motivating of Grande community activities
Prepare for SC98 Panel Sessions -- needs policy and process
Decide on "process" to interact with Sun/JavaSoft and Grande user and development community
  • Sun/JavaSoft is most important in near term (?)
Interaction with Europar Meeting
Do we need another meeting (of a subgroup?) before SC98?
Should we seek federal funding?
Java Grande 99 workshop Timing and Organization
  • Current suggestion is weekend before JavaOne 99
Should we formalize organization of workshop series/forum?
  • Steering committee
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Foil 5 SC98 Panels Orlando

From Java Grande Forum Overview Java Grande Forum III Hyatt Rickey's Palo Alto CA -- Aug 6-7 1998. *
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3 hour session on last day -- Friday November 13
Opportunity for public comment
Formatted as two 90 minute panels
Java Grande Panel I: Rationale, Status and the Forum
  • 3 talks on general issues by "leaders" in field
  • Discussion of Numerics Working Group
  • Discussion of Concurrency/Applications Working Group
Java Grande Panel II: Issues and Futures
  • 4 short talks on focussed projects/topics -- 40 minutes total -- possibly negative comments!
  • Public discussion of Forum Process and Reports
Need to decide on Speakers/Process to obtain them
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From Java Grande Forum Overview Java Grande Forum III Hyatt Rickey's Palo Alto CA -- Aug 6-7 1998. *
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First Panel: 3 Major Speakers
  • Sun Micro -- Guy Steele or James Gosling
  • Speaker on Distributed Computing
  • Marc Snir on Performance/Compilers
  • Followed by 2 working groups
Second Panel: 4 Speakers and Discussion
  • Dongarra on Libraries -- Fortran v. Java
  • Reynders on "C++ v. Java Parallelism"
  • MathWorks on their use of Java
  • Another User's Experience ? Positive or Negative
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