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Foil 15 There are (at least) 3 Major Roles for JAVA in Computation

From And the Future is ........: The Use of Java and the Web in Scientific Computing Hefei Computational Science and Beijing Web Tutorial -- May 27 and 30 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

1 Java for the User Interface: This is roughly the "WebWindows Philosophy" of building applications to Web Server/Client Standards
2 Java for Coarse Grain Software Integration: see collaboration and metacomputing
3 Java as a high performance scientific language: for "inner" (and outer) loops Here parallelism is important but sequential issues also critical and first issues to examine!

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