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Abstract of Java Grande: Is Java Useful in MPP/HPCC Environments?

From Java Grande: Is Java Useful in MPP/HPCC Environments? Frontiers 99 Conference Annapolis -- February 21-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

We describe Java Grande -- definition, motivation and current status
  • motivation discusses Java as a language and where it is clearly good and where it could be good!
  • Describe 3 very different aspects of computation where Java can be used
The Java Grande Forum has numerical and distributed computing working groups and projects include
  • study changes to Java and its runtime to enhance Grande applications and their programming environment
  • community activity DATORR to define seamless interfaces allowing universal access to general hosts
Discuss Java for Parallel Computing including message passing passing (MPI) and data parallelism


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