Java at middle age: enabling Java for computational science

Java at middle age: enabling Java for computational science

Is Java ready for computational science?

This paper provides quantitative and qualitative arguments that help to decide whether Java is ready for computational science. Current shortcomings of Java as well as appropriate countermeasures are discussed.

A Collaboration-Enabling Framework for Java Beans

This paper presents a JavaBeans framework to support realtime collaborative applications. The paper contributes a generic collaboration bus to which any (including singleuser) applications can be plugged in as is and made collaborative with no modifications to the application or to the collaboration bus. It also provides the design guidelines for developing collaboration-aware applications to t...

Enabling Multiple Accelerator Acceleration for Java/OpenMP

While using a single GPU is fairly easy, using multiple CPUs and GPUs potentially distributed over multiple machines is hard because data needs to be kept consistent using message exchange and the load needs to be balanced. We propose (1) an array package that provides partitioned and replicated arrays and (2) a compute-device library to abstract from GPUs and CPUs and their location. Our syste...

Enabling Synchronous Joint-Working In Java

This paper gives an outlook on technologies for joint-working with Java-based programs applets and applications. Various approaches and APIs applied to the Java environment are discussed and compared. A new architecture for scalable Java application sharing is presented. Several suggestions on possible future features of JDK facing synchronous joint-working are presented.