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From Java Grande (a.k.a. Java for High Performance Computing) in a Nutshell Sun MicroSystems Java Day at CMU Pittsburgh -- Sept 26 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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Table of Contents for Java Grande (a.k.a. Java for High Performance Computing) in a Nutshell

1 Java Grande (a.k.a. Java for Scientific Computing or High Performance Computing) in a Nutshell
2 Abstract of CMU Java Grande Presentation
3 What is Java Grande?
4 What are the Issues in Java Grande?
5 What is the Process?
6 Why is Java Worth Looking at?
7 What is the Competition?
8 Why could Java succeed where Fortran and C++ failed?
9 PPT Slide
10 A Multi-Tier Computing System
11 What is Goal of Java Grande Forum?
12 Two types of Things the Forum is doing
13 Activities of the Java Grande Forum I
14 Gosling on Operator Overloading
15 Numerical Computing in Java
16 Matrix Multiplication Example
17 Java Grande Forum Proposals
18 Activities of the Java Grande Forum II
19 Some Remarks on Remote Method Invocation RMI
20 Performance for Java RMI/ORB's
21 Java Performance for Structures
22 C++ ORB Much Faster than Java!
23 What should you do as a Java Grande believer?
24 WebFlow + High Performance Backend Functional Architecture
25 WebFlow Multi-Tier Java plus high performance legacy code for NCSA Alliance Quantum Chemistry Application View
26 Summary of NPAC's JWORB natural Building Block of the Gateway
27 Multi-Server Middle Tier
28 Java and Parallelism I?
29 Java and Parallelism II?
30 PPT Slide
31 PPT Slide
32 Where are we now?
33 Java Framework for Computing Services I
34 Proposed Java Computing Services Framework II
35 Possible Services in a Java Computing Framework
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