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Foil 5 Hierarchy of Software Levels

From Master Presentation on Java for Simulation and Education Penn State Jan 13,Wright State Jan 27,SIAM March 16 1997 -- January 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox
PetaSoft White Paper
1 Numerical Objects in (C++/Fortran/C/Java)
2 Expose the Coarse Grain Parallelism
3 Expose All Levels of Memory Hierarchy
4 a) Pure Script (Interpreted)
5 c) High Level Language but Optimized Compilation
6 d) Machine Optimized RunTime
7 b) Semi- Interpreted
8 a la Applets
9 Memory Levels in High
10 Performance CPU
11 Nodes of Parallel/ Distributed System
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