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Foil 26 Remarks on HPJava -- Data Parallel Java - II

From Emerging Network(Web) Technologies for Scientific Computing CRPC NSF Review -- August 16 1996 . by Geoffrey C. Fox

Secs 175
We have proposed an approach which uses native classes for "compiler runtime" and follows an HPF style with an interpreted front-end like Matlab or APL
e.g. A = HParray.matmul(B,C)
  • Technically Generalizes HPF Interpreter we prototyped in 1993
  • Interpreters and objects are great as long as "coarse-grain"
  • i.e. arrays not array-elements
This leads to Java wrappers invoked by HPF-style Java(Script) interpreter which interfaces to native HPF or other implementations.
  • e.g. access HPF array Ahpf elements from Java with wrapper object A
  • HParray A = new HParrayConstructor("Ahpf");
  • A.grabelement(1,100)



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