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Foil 85 Hierarchy of Software Levels

From Java Grande: Role of Java in Large Scale Computations NPACI Summer Institute on Parallel Computing -- August 21 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Numerical Objects in (C++/Fortran/C/Java)
Expose the Coarse Grain Parallelism
Expose All Levels of Memory Hierarchy
a) Pure Script (Interpreted)
c) High Level Language but Optimized Compilation
d) Machine Optimized RunTime
b) Semi- Interpreted
a la Applets
Memory Levels in High
Performance CPU
Nodes of Parallel/ Distributed System



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