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Foil 12 Possible Grande Working Areas II

From Master Foilset for Java Grande Workshop and Forum Java 98/JavaOne Palo Alto/San Francisco -- February 28 98 March 24 98. by Geoffrey Fox


Parallel and High Performance Distributed Computing
  • e.g. high performance RMI
"Large Scale Scientific Objects" -- Interfaces for Computing Systems and Applications ("Scientific JDBC")
  • Computer Services Framework needed for developing interoperable user interfaces, universal tools and/or systems like Globus/Legion
  • Wrappers for "legacy" numerical codes (as described in JSPICE presentation on Feb 28 workshop session)
  • Component Architecture -- longer term
Implementation Issues
  • Difficult to change VM even though some think might be essential for good memory management
  • Coping with memory hierarchy
  • high performance threads and synchronization
Define set of relevant Benchmarks



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