MPI or PVM enabled jre?

[Carpenter, Dean]

I can certainly see this as valuable in a prototyping stage.  Getting the
algorithms, concepts, what-have-you working quickly and easily.  Then write
it in a high performance language.

Being able to slap something together really quickly to test MPI or PVM for
your application would be nice.

--
Dean Carpenter
Principal Architect
Purdue Pharma
dean.carpenter at pharma.com
deano at areyes.com
94TT :)


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael T. Prinkey [mailto:mprinkey at aeolusresearch.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:09 AM
To: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Re: MPI or PVM enabled jre?


I certainly wouldn't want to speak for the entire community, but I think
that most of us are just now crawling out of the FORTRAN days.  The next
step is to C, and not even to C++.  Experience has borne out the
performance advantages of "low-tech" languages like FORTRAN and C for
intense number crunching.  The performance of object-oriented languages
in general and Java in particular are suspect for the types of problems
that typically require high-performance parallel hardware.

Mike Prinkey
Aeolus Research, Inc.

"Joshua T. Klobe" wrote:
> 
> As a junior in college trying to devise a useful and interesting senior
> project, I was wondering why it seems that there is no java support for
> MPI or PVM enviroments?  Why has it stopped with c+?  Any thoughts are
> more than welcome.
> -Josh Klobe