Java Grande Conference June 12-14 1999

• JavaOne followed a very successful conference on Java in numeric and high performance computing.

• http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/conferences/java99/

• http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/familyphotos/jgacmjune99/

• which we will discuss later

• It had papers from NPAC on Portals for computing and integration of Java with MPI

• Highlight was talk by Bill Joy on his thoughts on area

• He “guaranteed” that Java will outperform C++ in 2 years

• This is as measured by computing cycles -- already Java is “twice as productive” as previous languages -- Joy aims at factor of 10 in a few years

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