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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Forum Overview Remarks at ACM Java Grande Meeting on June 13 99. Foils prepared July 6 99
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| Overall Goals and Activities |
| Some events of Note |
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Java Grande Forum Issues and Activities
What is Java Grande?
What is Goal of Java Grande Forum?
Near Term Events
Forum Activities
Coming Events
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| ACM Java Grande Meeting June 13 99 |
| Geoffrey Fox |
| NPAC |
| Syracuse University |
| gcf@npac.syr.edu |
| http://www.javagrande.org |
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| Use of Java for: |
| High Performance Network Computing |
| Scientific and Engineering Computation |
| (Distributed) Modeling and Simulation |
| Parallel and Distributed Computing |
| Data Intensive Computing |
| Communication and Computing Intensive Commercial and Academic Applications |
| HPCC Computational Grids ........ |
| Very difficult to find a "conventional name" that doesn't get misunderstood by some community! |
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| Java has potential to be a better environment for "Grande application development" than any previous languages such as Fortran and C++ |
| The Forum Goal is to develop community consensus and recommendations for either changes to Java or establishment of standards (frameworks) for "Grande" libraries and services |
| These Language changes or frameworks are designed to realize "best ever Grande programming environment" |
Activities involve "Working with Outside Community" (e.g. Floating Point Rules and RMI)
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| Sunday/Monday: Meeting of Benchmark (6.30 to 9.30), Numerics (8.30 to 12.30) and MPI (1.30 to 6 pm) groups |
| Monday: 5 Tutorials |
| Tuesday-->Friday: Java Grande Demonstration station in Sun Booth at JavaOne |
| Wednesday Java Grande BOF at JavaOne |
| Wednesday--Friday Grid Forum Meeting at NASA Ames |
| Send presentations to doug.macdonald@east.sun.com |
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Numerics Boisvert/Pozo
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Concurrency and Applications Gannon/Caromel
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New Areas
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| ACM Java Grande Conference '00 March to June '00 (? Stanford, San Francisco, UC Berkeley) |
SC99 November '99 "Presence"
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| ISCOPE '99 December 99 has strong Grande C++ and growing Java constituency. Could collocate Forum activity |