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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
Data parallelism important in High Performance scientific computing.
High level HPF programming model attractive, but implementations problematic and base language is Fortran!
HPspmd model: Distributed array syntax, plus high-level class library bindings for communication and arithmetic on arrays.
Explicitly MIMD control flow.
Ease of HPF Arrays; power of MPI; uses best language ....

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