JavaGrande - High Performance Computing with Java

The JavaGrande Forum is a group of users, researchers, and interested parties from industry. The Forum members are either trying to use Java for resource-intensive applications or are trying to improve the Java platform, making it possible to create large-sized applications that run quickly and e ciently in Java. In order to improveits oating point arithmetic, the Forum has suggested to add the keywords strictfp and fastfp to the Java programming language It has has worked on complex numbers, multidimensional arrays, fast object serializations, and a high-speed remote method invocation (RMI). Results about the new eld of research that has been started by the JavaGrande Forum have been recognized both internationally and within Sun Microsystems. 1 JavaGrande Forum Inspired by co ee house jargon, the buzzword Grande applications became commonplace.1 Grande applications can be found in the elds of scienti c, engineering or commercial computing and distinguish themselves, due to their comp...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: PARA
• Authors: Michael Philippsen, Ronald F. Boisvert, Vladimir Getov, Roldan Pozo, José E. Moreira, Dennis Gannon, Geoffrey Fox
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Grande Applications, JAVA Programming Language, JavaGrande Forum, PARA 2000