Java for High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing; Simulation and Modelling

Geoffrey Fox, NPAC, Syracuse University, 111 College Place, Syracuse, NY 13244-4100

gcf@npac.syr.edu, http://www.npac.syr.edu
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Well the workshop occurred and was pretty succesful. We will posting a bunch of information about it and produced by it.
The list of 45 Attendees is given here
The Schedule and Talks Presented includes web references

Small Invitation Only Workshop on Java for High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing; Simulation and Modelling in beautiful Syracuse New York December 16 and 17 (contact gcf@npac.syr.edu for details)
This Meeting will start 9am on Monday December 16 at NPAC and finishs at 1pm the following day -- Here is how to get to NPAC from Airport and from local hotels.
Rooms have been reserved at the nearest hotel to the University -- The University Sheraton which has has blocked 20 rooms for the "JAVA conference". Visitors should call 1-800-395-2105 to reserve a room, and when reserving a room they need to mention "JAVA conference"; the rate is $82.00/night. Visitors need to make their reservations by December 6, 1996, after this time, the block will be released to the general public. Other Hotels are also near the University and good choices -- As shown on local sketchmap, the Genessee Inn and Holiday Inn are quite convenient.
Note Syracuse is not a giant metropolis and features low latency airports and road travel. It is about 20 minutes from Airport to Hotels/NPAC. Taxis have curious feature that you pay at Airport for trips from there.
It has been known to be chilly in Syracuse during december and it gets more snow per year than any comparable city in U.S.A. Please note this when packing. You will have no trouble walking from Genessee Inn or University Syracuse to NPAC. The Holiday Inn would be a healthy walk!

Selected Presentations at this Workshop will be published in a special issue of Concurrency:Practice and Experience!

We just completed a succesful Supercomputing 96 Birds of a Feather Gettogether on November 20 Wednesday 1:30 - 3:30 in Armstrong Room of DoubleTree Hotel in Pittsburgh

• These meetings are aimed at discussing all issues of using Java in simulations where today we use Fortran and C++.
• We include both classic Grand Challenge applications and libraries as well as distributed simulation as in Forces Modelling seen in SIMNET/DSI.
• We include parallel and sequential applications but will will only consider Java for Simulation as opposed to major commercial use of Java in Web Servers etc.
• We include both optimized Java native compilers for numerical kernels and interpreted Java "wrappers" for visualization etc.
• The Birds of the Feather meeting is aimed at getting a broad perspective of community interests and views.
• The Syracuse workshop is aimed at a more technical discussion among the "believers".

Some predjudiced references can be found at:

• http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/javaforcsefall96/index.html which is a presentation given by Fox on subject
• http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/hpjava3.html which is a draft report on data parallel Java by the PCRC -- Parallel Runtime Compiler Consortium
• http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/pcrc/demos96.html includes some early work on HPJava by the Syracuse Group
• http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/webspace/webbasedhpcc.html is a broader list of Syracuse projects linking HPCC and Web Technologies