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Foil 3 My Personal Philosophy

From Java Grande: Is Java Useful in MPP/HPCC Environments? Frontiers 99 Conference Annapolis -- February 21-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Most of my work is aimed at using Object Web technologies (CORBA, COM, Java, XML) in scientific computing/HPCC
2 Majority of HPCC users (not perhaps ones at this conference) are still using unattractive programming environments with a programming model (explicit message passing) we thought crude 10 years ago
  • We have failed to deploy quality HPCC software as not enough money to build robust sophisticated software
3 Object Web can provide wonderful base distributed computing technology on which we can base much better HPCC software
  • Parallel computing is a special case of distributed computing with low latency and high bandwidth
4 In particular, we focus on Java as this is likely to be a significant part of Object Web and there are serious difficulties in using it as is!
5 First we think of a name for types of applications we wish to study

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