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Foil 57 HPJava Study Rationale

From General Collection of Foils for CRPC Annual Meeting CRPC Annual Meeting -- 14-17 May 1996 Argonne. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 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.
2 HPCC has developed technology and the application pull for large scale computation with typically tighter synchronization constraints than those of Java.
3 Further HPCC can benefit from the pervasive software base illustrated by Web in general and Java in particular.
4 Correspondingly there are many emerging Web based applications which will need large synchronized computation.
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