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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


Most of my work is aimed at using Object Web technologies (CORBA, COM, Java, XML) in scientific computing/HPCC
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
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
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!
First we think of a name for types of applications we wish to study



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