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http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC'99)

Bassetti, F. (Editor) ; Davis, K. (Editor) ; Mohr, B. (Editor)FZJ*

1999
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik Jülich

Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/7894

Report No.: FZJ-ZAM-IB-9906

Abstract: 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.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik (ZAM)
2. Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)

Research Program(s):

1. 899 - ohne Topic (POF2-899) (POF2-899)

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