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Recommendation for Sang Lim from Geoffrey Fox
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Sang Lim (like Hanku Lee) went through the usual NPAC evaluation process
during 1998. and started working on his PhD in January 1999 --
essentially the start of our NSF proposal to look at HPJava. This
proposal linked data parallel and message parallel paradigms and Lim's
research has focussed on the latter -- in particular he is working on
"mpiJava", a Java binding of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard
for parallel computing published in 1993. The mpiJava software has been
one of NPAC's important contributions to the proceedings of the Java
Grande Forum.  It was a principle reference implementation cited by the
Java Grande Message Passing working group.

Sang Lim developed the software that incorporated object serialization to
the mpiJava API.  In our view this work addresses some of the most
difficult issues in development of high-performance message-passing
interfaces for Java for MPI was never designed with objects in mind and
this is clear weakness of this important standard.  The work was reported
in papers presented at the 3rd MPI Developers' and Users' Conference
(MPIDC '99), the Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing
at IPPS/SPDP '99, and the ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference.  Lim was a co-
author on these papers.

Sang Lim is now the principle developer and maintainer of the publically
available mpiJava software.
http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/pcrc/HPJava/mpiJava.html 
The software is one of the foundations of an NSF-ITR proposal we
submitted recently on behalf of Florida State University ("ITR/ACS:
Integration of High Performance Message-based Programming Environments
with Distributed Objects and the Web").

Lim is a talented proven research student who I strongly recommend
for admission to FSU.

Geoffrey Fox
Professor of Computer Science Florida State University