Activities of the Java Grande Forum II
Distributed and Parallel Computing Working Group 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 (issues include fast networking, object synchronization and creation, array initialization, use of clusters and SMP’s)
- Parallel Computing interfaces including Java MPI binding
- Development of universal Java interface to computing resources (Standards for computing portals)
- Integration of PalmTop devices (running Java) with HPCC
- Role of Jini technology in metacomputing
Development of Grande Application benchmarks
- NIST Adelaide (Australia) and Edinburgh
- http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/javagrande and
- http://math.nist.gov/scimark
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