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Activities of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Java Grande Meeting with Sun Microsystems Menlo Park on March 11 99. Foils prepared May 19 99

Meeting with Sun Microsystems to review Forum recommendations and discuss next steps
Overview of Process
Issues are Complex Arithmetic, Multidimensional arrays, Lightweight classes, Operator overloading, Improved Floating Point
SciMark and benchmarking Java Numerical performance
Summarize conclusions of Meeting as well as initial talk


Table of Contents for Activities of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group


001 Activities of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group
002 Java Grande Forum (JGF)
003 JGF Organization
004 Why We're Interested
005 Biggest Problems
006 Numerics WG Charter
007 Group Organization
008 Meeting Participants
009 Initial Group Products
010 Constraints
011 Critical Needs for Numerics
012 Issue: Complex
013 Issue: Multidimensional Arrays
014 A Common Solution
015 Issue: Floating-point
016 Floating-point Proposals
017 Additional recommendations
018 Core Numerical APIs
019 SciMark Benchmark
020 PPT Slide
021 PPT Slide
022 Next Steps
023 Today's Agenda
024 Summary of Discussion
025 Summary of Discussion
026 Summary of Discussion
027 Summary of Discussion
028 Summary of Discussion


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