Experiments with ``HPJava''

Bryan Carpenter, Yuh-Jye Chang,
Geoffrey Fox, Donald Leskiw, Xiaoming Li,
Northeast Parallel Architectures Centre,
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, New York

Abstract:

We consider the possible röle of Java as a language for High Performance Computing. After discussing reasons why Java may be a natural candidate for a portable parallel programming language, we describe several case studies. These cover Java socket programming, message-passing through a Java interface to MPI, and class libraries for data-parallel programming in Java.