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Foil 36 Hierarchy of Software Levels

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 Numerical Objects in (C++/Fortran/C/Java)
2 Expose the Coarse Grain Parallelism
3 Expose All Levels of Memory Hierarchy
4 a) Pure Script (Interpreted)
5 c) High Level Language but Optimized Compilation
6 d) Machine Optimized RunTime
7 b) Semi- Interpreted
8 a la Applets
9 Memory Levels in High
10 Performance CPU
11 Nodes of Parallel/ Distributed System

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