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Foil 96 Data Parallel HPJava: Motivations

From Java Grande: Role of Java in Large Scale Computations NPACI Summer Institute on Parallel Computing -- August 21 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Data parallelism important in High Performance scientific computing.
2 High level HPF programming model attractive, but implementations problematic and base language is Fortran!
3 HPspmd model: Distributed array syntax, plus high-level class library bindings for communication and arithmetic on arrays.
4 Explicitly MIMD control flow.
5 Ease of HPF Arrays; power of MPI; uses best language ....
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