Java Grande Projects

The Java Grande Forum is an international organization working to provide support within the Java programming language and its standard class libraries for so-called Grande applications that use high-end computing. The traditional Grande applications are large-scale computational science and engineering simulations using high-performance computers, particularly multi-processor machines. Java is also well-suited for large, complex applications that use distributed computing or metacomputing.

We are currently working on the following projects related to Java Grande applications:

• Java Grande Benchmarking to develop benchmarks and measure the performance of Java for numerical and scientific application kernels as well as general low-level routines.

• Java DSM project for benchmarking and comparison of distributed shared memory implementations for Java on a large Sun SMP cluster.

• Java Grande Scientific Software Library, including a draft API and a reference implementation for a random number generator for Java Grande applications such as Monte Carlo simulation.

• JUMP, a Java based message-passing component for DISCWorld, aimed at embedding parallel computing services running on Beowulf-class clusters in metacomputing environments

For more information, contact Paul Coddington or Ken Hawick.