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Welcome to the Java Grande Forum

About the Java Grande Forum

Java has potential to be a better environment for Grande application development than any previous languages such as Fortran and C++. The goal of the Java Grande Forum (JGF) is to develop community consensus and recommendations for either changes to Java or establishment of standards (frameworks) for Grande libraries and services. These language changes or frameworks are designed to realize the best ever Grande programming environment.

The Java Grande Forum does not intend to be a standards body for the Java™ language per se. Rather, JGF intends to act in an advisory capacity to ensure those working on Grande applications have a unified voice to address Java language design and implementation issues and communicate this input directly to Sun or a prospective Java standards group. Java Grande Forum Process and Membership The forum intends a set of working meetings with a core group of active participants. These will produce reports, which are reviewed in public forums and transmitted appropriately within the cognizant bodies within the Java and computational fields.

The forum is open to any qualified member of academia, industry or government who is willing to play an active role. Please read the Java Grande Charter document for more information about becoming a member. Our first major public meeting was held on November 13, 1998 as a 3-hour panel session at Supercomputing 98 in Orlando. Another meeting is planned at SC 99 this November in Portland, Oregon.

Key Contacts

George K. Thiruvathukal, DePaul University School of CTI
Forum Secretary General

Geoffrey C. Fox, Syracuse University/NPAC
Academic Coordinator

Siamak Hassanzadeh, Sun Microsystems
Industry Liaison

Roldan Pozo and Ron Boisvert, both of NIST
Numerics Working Group Chairs

Dennis Gannon, NASA Ames/Indiana University
Denis Caromel, I.N.R.I.A. Nice/Sophia Antipolis
Concurrency/Applications Working Group Chairs

Mailing Lists

• Java Grande Forum members: javagrandeforum@npac.syr.edu

• Java for Computer Science and Engineering applications: java-for-cse@npac.syr.edu

For more information about the Java Grande Forum, please send mail to one of the key contacts and be sure to carbon copy JavaGrandeForum@yahoo.com.

Java Grande News

• Don't Forget to Attend the ACM 2000 Java Grande Conference; sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, San Francisco, California, June 3-4, 2000

• Java Grande Report June 99 PDF HTML

• Java Grande Europe

• Java Grande Benchmarking

• Java Framework for Computing or Computing Portals

• Numerics in Java

• RMI Performance and Related Issues

• We are working to collect information on all Java Grande projects. Please visit our Community page and submit your project information today!

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