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Foil 2 Java and Future HPCC Abstract

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 *
The talk starts with an overview of NPAC and a description of our CPSWT CDROM with Chinese translation of Computational Science courseware
We then describe 3 major areas where Java (and other Web Technologies) can have significant impact
1) Java can be used to build user Interfaces and here we describe the Virtual Programming Laboratory VPL
2) Java can support coarse grain integration and metacomputing
  • Here we describe both WebFlow (AVS on the web) and Tango (a Java Collaboratory)
  • Both Computational Steering and "Forces Modelling" seem naturally implemented with this technology
3) Java as a traditional compiled language for computational kernels
  • The latter discussion included details on parallel Java
We show how this allows one to build integrated Interpreted and Compiled Environments

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