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Foil 19 Java in the three tiers of scientific computing

From Use of Java Language in Computational Science DoD Modernization Users Group Conference Monterey -- June 7 99. by Nancy McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox


Java for the Graphical User Interface and client side analysis systems, including visualization: Java has unique advantages over other languages
Java for Coarse Grain Software Integration: as in collaboration and metacomputing
  • Java has unique advantages over other languages
Java as a high performance scientific language: for "inner" (and outer) loops
  • Here both parallel and sequential issues are important
  • Java as good as other languages with higher performance than C++ and advantages of object oriented programming over Fortran and C



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