Abstract of MIT/CMU Java Grande Presentation
We describe Java Grande in context of its Forum -- motivation and current status
- a set of projects issues conferences and meetings
- motivation discusses Java Grande as a language and where it is clearly good and where it could be good!
There are numerical and distributed computing issues
- Improve floating point performance
- Improve language for things like matrices, complex types etc.
- Improve performance of base technologies such as RMI, JINI etc. which can greatly help large scale computations
- Express parallelism
- one project is a community activity to define Seamless interfaces allowing universal access to general hosts