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Foil 8 So what will we discuss?

From aJava Grande and Pragmatic Programming Environments Invited Talk at ISCOPE 98, Santa Fe -- Dec 10 98. by Geoffrey Fox


In general, we will try to couple scientific computing/HPCC to the POW heat bath
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
POW 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 POW 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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