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Foil 5 Basic Issues in Java Grande

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


These exist from both a computer science and user point of view
Grande applications are very complex but field is small (1% or so of total computing world)
  • It is a much larger fraction of academic computation
The field needs Java as it provides a wonderful distributed computing software infrastructure on which to build applications and tools
  • e.g. RMI JINI etc can enable metacomputing?
  • Users can enjoy Java program development environment
Not clear that Java needs the field and so Grande field needs to be humble and persuasive in its requests
Currently the Grande field is intrigued but skeptical due to poor Java performance
Java community doing battle in commercially critical areas
Need to bring communities together



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