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From Basic Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics Networking Trip to China and Icase Tutorial -- July 12-28 and June 10-13 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Current runtime (java Threads) assume shared memory but there are interesting possible distributed memory and distributed shared memory implementations
One can imagine a dataparallel interface where methods would implement array and other data parallel operations with distributions specified by annotations as in HPF
  • Here one has a HPJava translator that produces java "plus message passing" code
Important implication for parallel CORBA using Java classes to interface with CORBA
Java based servers will allow data and task parallel Java to implement World Wide compute webs

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