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Java Grande (a.k.a. Java for High Performance Computing) in a Nutshell

We describe Java Grande in context of its Forum -- motivation and current status a set of projects issues conferences and meetings motivation discusses Java Grande as a language and where it is clearly good and where it could be good!

There are numerical and distributed computing issues Improve floating point performance Improve language for things like matrices, complex types etc. Improve performance of base technologies such as RMI, JINI etc. which can greatly help large scale computations Express parallelism one project is a community activity to define Seamless interfaces allowing universal access to general hosts

Table of Contents for Java Grande (a.k.a. Java for High Performance Computing) in a Nutshell

001 Java Grande (a.k.a. High Performance Java) in a Nutshell
002 Abstract of MIT/CMU Java Grande Presentation
003 What is Java Grande?
004 Java Grande Process: Approach and Activities
005 Why is Java Grande Worth Looking at?
006 What is the Competition?
007 Why could Java succeed where Fortran and C++ failed?
008 Three Roles of Java in Grande Computing
009 The 3 Roles             of Java
010 What is Goal of Java Grande Forum?
011 Two types of Things we are doing
012 Activities of the Java Grande Forum I
013 Gosling on Operator  Overloading
014 What's the Fuss about Performance?
015 More Details on Performance
016 Java Rules for Floating Point
017 JGF Proposed FP Execution Modes
018 Other Floating Point Issues
019 Activities of the Java Grande Forum II
020 RMI Performance
021 IIOP Performance for Java ORB's
022 Java IIOP Performance for Structures
023 C++ ORB Much Faster than Java!
024 Java and multi-tier Grande Systems
025 Multi-Server Gateway Tier
026 WebFlow / JWORB Multi-Tier Model for Quantum Chemistry Simulations
027 WebFlow Java Applet for Quantum Chemistry
028 Summary of NPAC's JWORB natural Building Block for Java Grande
029 Java and Parallelism?
030 Where are we now?
031 What should you do as a Java Grande believer?
032 What/Why is a Framework?
033 Proposed Java Computing Services Framework
034 Possible Services in a Java Computing Framework
035 Synergy of Parallel Computing and Web Internetics as Unifying 
    Principle