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Java Grande Meetings

Upcoming Events

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Desktop Access to Remote Resources

Argonne National Laboratory, 8-9 October 1998

This purpose of this meeting is to discuss the details of providing desktop access to remote resources and the notion of seamless computing.

Supercomputing 1998

Panel Session on Java, 13 November 1998

This will involve presentations and interactions with HPCC community at SC98 Panel sessions November 13 (see Draft Description)

Past Meetings

March 24, 1998; JavaOne Birds of a Feather
February 28/March 1; Java '98, Palo Alto, CA
May 9-10, 1998; JGF Meeting #2, Palo Alto, CA
August 6-7, 1998; JGF Meeting #3, Palo Alto, CA

 

JGF First Meeting

March 1, 1998; Palo Alto, Californi

Our first meeting was held in conjunction with ACM Java 98.

This minutes from this meeting are available here.

Birds of a Feather Sesssion at JavaOne

March 24, 1998; San Francisco, California

Geoffrey Fox delivered a presentation  about the Java Grande Forum.

JGF Second Meeting

May 9-10, 1998, Palo Alto, California

Short Meeting Overview
The Draft Java Grande Forum Charter and in Word contains a general description of the Forum as well as the two reports of the working groups cited below
The Current forum discussion of Numerics
and our Discussion of Concurrency, Distributed Computing (including RMI) and applications
Detailed documents by Forum members include:
Detailed Analysis of RMI in PDF Format or Postscript
VNI Proposal for Complex and Special Functions
Presentations at Second Forum Include
Sun's HotSpot Compiler -- The Core IR Cliff Click Sun
Analysis of Java Performance in Scientific Codes Marc Snir IBM
JNI Java Native Interface Sheng Liang Sun (presentation is from JavaOne Conference)

JGF Third Meeting

August 6-7,  1998; Palo Alto, California

Short Meeting Overview
Summary of Numeric Working Group Activity
MathWorks and NIST announced Their Matrix Classes
NIST announced Their Benchmark Set
Presentations Included:
Professor William Kahan and Joseph D. Darcy on How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere
Professor William Kahan and Joseph D. Darcy on Analysis of "Proposal for Extension to Java Floating Point Semantics Revision 1"
Institutional Remarks from Fox
Java and Condor from Marvin Solomon (Wisconsin)
Java3D and Vecmath libraries, Henry Sowrizol, Sun
OpenVM (formerly Kaffe), Tim Wilkinson, TransVirtual