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Foil 9 HPJava Study Rationale

From Status of PCRC HPF and HPJava CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox


Java is rapidly becoming a dominant distributed computing language driven by the the breadth and depth of the World Wide Web.
  • It implements a natural object or Applet distributed parallelism combined with a
  • classic light weight thread mechanism within a given applet i.e. within a given (SMP) processor.
HPCC has developed technology and the application pull for large scale computation with typically tighter synchronization constraints than those of Java.
Further HPCC can benefit from the pervasive software base illustrated by Web in general and Java in particular.
Correspondingly there are many emerging Web based applications which will need large synchronized computation.



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