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\address {\vspace{0.2in}\\Dr.\ David Bryan Carpenter \\
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center \\
111 College Place \\
Syracuse University \\
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 \\
Phone: (315) 443-5068 \\
FAX  : (315) 443-1973 \\
email: dbc@npac.syr.edu
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\begin{letter}{\bf Recommendation for Sang Boem Lim}

\opening{Dear Colleague,}

I have supervised Sang Lim in activities related to our research group
since June 1998, when he joined us as an ``independent study'' student.
In January 1999 he became a Ph.D. student, and a Graduate Resarch Assistant
in my group.

Sang Lim has been especially involved with the implementation of our
{\em mpiJava} system---a Java binding of MPI developed as part of
the ongoing {\em HPJava} projected.  He was particularly involved
in the work to introduce object serialization into the mpiJava API,
and developed software that was a basis for several recent workshop papers
(MPIDC '99, ACM Java '99, IPDS/IPPS '99).  He also produced mpiJava
demos for Supercomputing '98.  Currently Sang Lim is learning about the
Jini and Javaspaces software from Sun, which we expect will be important
to future work on scalable fault-tolerant computing, following on from
the mpiJava work.  In my experience Sang Lim is an excellent and diligent
student.

\closing{Yours sincerely,\\\vspace{0.8in}Bryan Carpenter}

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