Activities of the Java Grande Forum II

• Distributed and Parallel Computing led by Dennis Gannon and Denis Caromel (INRIA, France)

  • Performance of RMI (Attractive Java distributed object model - “remote method invocation”)
  • Performance of Java runtime (the virtual machine VM) with lots of threads, I/O, memory use
  • Parallel Computing interfaces including Java MPI binding
  • Development of universal (Condor, Globus, Legion UNICORE WebSubmit ..) Java interface to computing resources -- enables seamless computing (easier than metacomputing!)
  • Special seamless computing (DATORR) meetings at Argonne October 98 and Sandia February 99

• Development of Grande Application benchmarks

  • http://math.nist.gov/scimark

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