Subject: Java Grande Activities at SC98

From: Geoffrey Fox <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 12:28:52 -0500

Here are some important community activities at SC98
There are of course many other relevant individuals talks
and exhibits.

Java Grande at SC98: Realizing the Potential of Java for High Performance Computing
see http://www.javagrande.org

There are 3 activities connected to Java Grande
1) Panel Sessions Friday November 13 1998 8.30 a.m. to Noon
2) Demonstration and Discussion Station in the Sun Booth in Exhibit Area
3) Birds of the Feather Session Tuesday Nov, 10, 17:00-18:00 on Desktop Access to Remote Resources

Copies are available of 3 Significant Reports
1) Initial Results of Forum Activities leading to Recommendations for Sun on Changes to Java
2) Proceedings of conference held Feb 28 -- Mar 1 98 in Palo Alto published in journal
   Concurrency:Practice and Experience
3) Initial report on implementation standards for MPI with Java

Panel Sessions Friday November 13 1998 8.30 a.m. to Noon

This is a set of two linked panels, which will focus on the status, issues and
futures of Java Grande and include a presentation of and public comment on the
activities of the Java Grande forum. Grande applications are large-scale
applications typical of HPCC, scientific and engineering computations, or
distributed simulations. The goal of the Java Grande forum is to further community
activities that will make Java a much better (and probably the best) programming
environment for Grande applications. The first three meetings of the Forum were
March 1, May 9-10, and August 6-7 of 1998. A further specialized meeting covering
a Java framework for computing services was co-hosted with Globus group Oct 8-9.
The Panels will consist of presentations from the community covering technologies,
applications and studies relevant to Java Grande, which will set the scene and give
possibly controversial position papers.
The two Java Grande working groups will present their current findings and lead an
open discussion. The public comments will be integrated into revised versions of
the working group reports.

Java Grande Panel I
8.30 Introduction to Java Grande and the Panels (with slack for late start but firm finish at 8.45) 
     Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University
8.45 Report from the Numerics Working Group of the Java Grande Forum, Ron Boisvert NIST
9.05 Report from the Applications and Concurrency Working Group of the Java Grande Forum,
     Dennis Gannon, Indiana University and NASA Ames
9.25 Compilers and Performance of Java, Marc Snir, IBM
9.40 Linear Algebra in Java, Cleve Moler , The MathWorks
9.55-10.00 Spare to catch up ...

Java Grande Panel II
10.30 Building Libraries in Java, Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge
      National Laboratory
10.40 Lessons from C++, John Reynders, Los Alamos
10.50 Application Experience in Oil Industry, Siamak Hassanzadeh, Sun Microsystems
11.00 Java Benchmarks, Martin Westhead, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center
11.10 MPI for Java, Vladimir Getov, University of Westminister England
11.20 Java Framework for Computing Services (Desktop Access to Remote Resources), Gregor
      von Laszewski, Argonne National Laboratory
11.30 -12.00 Discussion