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Foil 4 Java Grande Conference June 12-14 1999

From Case Studies in Internetics -- Survey of JavaOne and Discussion of Possible Projects CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 22 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 JavaOne followed a very successful conference on Java in numeric and high performance computing.
2 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/conferences/java99/
3 http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/familyphotos/jgacmjune99/
4 which we will discuss later
5 It had papers from NPAC on Portals for computing and integration of Java with MPI
6 Highlight was talk by Bill Joy on his thoughts on area
7 He "guaranteed" that Java will outperform C++ in 2 years
8 This is as measured by computing cycles -- already Java is "twice as productive" as previous languages -- Joy aims at factor of 10 in a few years
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