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Foil 2 Introduction and Background

From Java for MPI for the Java Grande Forum SC98 Orlando Java Grande Panel -- November 13 98. by Bryan Carpenter, Vladimir Getov (Westminister Univ. UK Speaker), Glenn Judd, Tony Skjellum
The existing communication packages in Java - RMI, API to BSD sockets - are optimized for Client/Server programming
The symmetric model of communication is captured in the MPI standard - MPI-1 and MPI-2
A Java-MPI API specification is urgently needed to enable the development of portable JavaGrande applications using MPI

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