What is the Process?
Set of Workshops with increasing interest
- Syracuse December 96 -- 50 participants
- Las Vegas June 97 -- 100
- Palo Alto February 98 -- 200
- Southampton (Europe) -- 60
- San Francisco June 99 - 175 participants and first official ACM sponsorship (Just before JavaOne 99 Java developers conference)
Topics include compilation issues; applications; algorithms (math libraries); benchmarking; Java based programming environments(visualization, problem solving environments, MPI); parallel computing and largest set of papers are in distributed systems
Other major conferences with a Java Grande component include HPCN and IPPS (April 99), Mannheim and ICS 99 Rhodes Greece (June 99)
ISCOPE99 in December 99 will have a Java Grande component to enhance interaction between Grande community and mainstream Java and C++ world
We set up Java Grande Forum to act as a focus for Grande community activities and coordinate the (feeble 1%) voice into mainstream! This will now have an official European branch