CRPC-TR99803						October 1999

Title: Thoughts on the structure of an MPJ reference implementation

Authors: Mark Baker and Bryan Carpenter

Submitted November 1999

Abstract:

We sketch a proposed reference implementation for MPJ, the Java Grande
Forum's MPI-like message-passing API [9, 3]. The proposal relies heavily
on RMI and Jini for finding computational resources, creating slave
processes, and handling failures. User-level communication is implemented
efficiently directly on top of Java sockets.

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Mark Baker
Mark.Baker@port.ac.uk
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
Syracuse University

Bryan Carpenter
dbc@npac.syr.edu
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
Syracuse University