Contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Features of HPJava
  • Organization of the Dissertation
  
  
• Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing Environments for Java
    • Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) in Java
    • MPI and MPJ
    • Java RMI
    • JavaParty
    • Jini
  • Peer to Peer Computing
    • Javelin
    • SETI@home
    • Parabon
    • JXTA
  • Java Enterprise Computing
    • Java Message Service
    • Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
  • Comparison of Languages
    • Java
    • C++
    • C#
  
  
• Review of the HPJava Environment
  • Introduction
  • HPJava--an HPspmd language
  • High-level Communication Library
  • Message-passing for HPJava
    • The mpiJava wrapper
    • Task-Parallelism in HPJava
  
  
• A high-level communication library for HPJava
  • Background
  • Implementation of Collectives
  • Collective Communications
    • Regular Collective Communications
    • Reductions
    • Irregular Collective Communications
  • Schedules
  
  
• A low-level communication library for Java HPC
  • Goals and Requirements
  • General APIs
    • Message Buffer API
    • Communication API
  • Message Format
    • Layout details
  • Communication Protocol
    • Encoding
  • Implementations
    • mpiJava-based Implementation
    • Multithreaded Implementation
    • LAPI Implementation
    • Jini Implementation
  
  
• Applications and Performance
  • Environments
  • Partial Differential Equations
    • An Application
    • Evaluation
  • HPJava with GUI
    • Evaluation
  • LAPI
  • Communication Evaluation
  
  
• Conclusion and Future Work
  • Conclusion
  • Future Work
    • HPJava
    • Communication Libraries
  
  
• The Java Adlib API
  • General Features
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Remap
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Shift
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Skew
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • WriteHalo
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Gather
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Scatter
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Sum
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • SumDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Product
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • ProductDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Maxval
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • MaxvalDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Minval
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • MinvalDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • All
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • AllDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Any
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • AnyDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Count
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • CountDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • DotProduct
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Maxloc
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • MaxlocDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • Minloc
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • MinlocDim
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • APrintf
    • Effect and Restrictions
  • gprintf
  
  
• Bibliography