Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC'99)
Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC'99)
This report contains the Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel / high-performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC'99) at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'99) which was held in Lisbon, Portugal on June 15, 1999. The workshop is a joint organization...
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Personal Name(s): | Bassetti, Federico (Editor) |
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Davis, Kei (Editor) / Mohr, Bernd (Editor) | |
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Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik; ZAM Jülich Supercomputing Center; JSC |
Published in: | 1999 |
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Jülich
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik
1999
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Conference: | European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lisboa (Portugal), 1999-06-14 - 1999-06-18 |
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Proceedings Internal Report |
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ohne Topic |
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OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
This report contains the Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel / high-performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC'99) at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'99) which was held in Lisbon, Portugal on June 15, 1999. The workshop is a joint organization by the Special Interest Group on Object Oriented Technologies of the Esprit Working Group EuroTools and Los Alamos National Laboratory.While object-oriented programming is being embraced in industry, particularly in the form of C++ and Java, its acceptance by the parallel / high-performance scientific programming community is tentative at best. In this latter domain performance is invariably of paramount importance, where even the transition from FORTRAN 77 to C is incomplete, primarily because of performance loss. On the other hand, three factors together practically dictate the use of language features that provide better paradigms for abstraction: increasingly complex numerical algorithms, application requirements, and hardware (e.g. deep memory hierarchies, numbers of processors, communication and I/O).In spite of considerable skepticism in the community, various small groups are developing significant parallel scientific applications and software frameworks in C++ and FORTRAN 90; others are investigating the use of Java. This workshop seeks to bring together practitioners and researchers in this emerging field to `compare notes' on their work - describe existing, developing, or proposed software; tried and proposed programming languages and techniques; performance issues and their realized or proposed resolution; and discuss points of concern for progress and acceptance of object-oriented scientific computing. |