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Java Grande Overview

We describe Java Grande -- definition, motivation and current status motivation discusses Java as a language and where it is clearly good and where it could be good! Describe 3 very different aspects of computation where Java can be used

The Java Grande Forum has numerical and distributed computing working groups and projects include study changes to Java and its runtime to enhance Grande applications and their programming environment community activity DATORR to define seamless interfaces allowing universal access to general hosts

Discuss Java for Parallel Computing including message passing passing (MPI) and data parallelism

Table of Contents for Java Grande Overview

001 Java Grande: Overview
002 Abstract of IPPS/SPDP 99 Java Grande Presentation
003 What is Java Grande?
004 Basic Issues in Java Grande
005 Why is Java Worth Looking at?
006 What is the Alternative?
007 The 3 Places Java can be Used
008 A Multi-Tier Computing System
009 What is the Process?
010 What is Goal of Java Grande Forum?
011 Presentations at SC98 Panel Session
012 Two types of Things the Forum is doing
013 Activities of the Java Grande Forum I
014 Numerical Computing in Java
015 Java Grande Forum Floating Point Proposals
016 Activities of the Java Grande Forum II
017 Some Remarks on Remote Method Invocation RMI
018 Future Activities of Concurrency Group
019 Java Framework for Computing Services
020 Seamless Interfaces
021 DATORR and JavaCS
022 Possible Services in DATORR or Java Computing Framework
023 www.datorr.org
024 Activities in MPI for Java
025 Java and Parallelism I?
026 Java and Parallelism II?
027 What should you do as a Java Grande believer I?
028 What should you do as a Java Grande believer II?