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Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in 1995. HPJava extends Java to support parallel programming on distributed memory systems. It adds multidimensional distributed arrays and integrates them into the Java syntax. The HPJava compiler translates programs into standard Java bytecode that can run on a cluster of JVMs. While Java provides threads for shared memory parallelism, HPJava's distributed arrays allow data-parallel programming on distributed memory machines.

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HPJava

Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in 1995. HPJava extends Java to support parallel programming on distributed memory systems. It adds multidimensional distributed arrays and integrates them into the Java syntax. The HPJava compiler translates programs into standard Java bytecode that can run on a cluster of JVMs. While Java provides threads for shared memory parallelism, HPJava's distributed arrays allow data-parallel programming on distributed memory machines.

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HPJava

L.Indraneel(08P61A1222)

Introduction to Java
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java Platform Java is currently one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 10 million users.

Characteristics of Java
Java is simple Java is object-oriented Java is distributed Java is interpreted Java is robust Java is secure Java is portable Javas performance Java is multithreaded Java is dynamic

Object Oriented Concepts


Inheritance Polymorphism Encapsulation Abstraction

Why Java?
Its the current popular language Its almost entirely object-oriented It has a vast library of predefined objects and operations Its more platform independent
this makes it great for Web programming

Its more secure

Java programs
Two kinds Applications have main() run from the OS prompt Applets have init(), start(), stop(), paint(), update(), repaint(), destroy() run from within a web page

What is HPJava?
HPJava stands for high performance java HPJava is a programming language extended from Java to support parallel programming, especially (but not exclusively) data parallel programming on message passing and distributed memory systems, from multiprocessor systems to workstation clusters

Difference between Java and HP Java


Java already provides parallelism through threads. But that model of parallelism can only be easily exploited on shared memory computers. HP Java is targeted at distributed memory parallel computers (most likely, networks of PCs and workstations).

HPJava History
Inspired by HPF(high performance Fortran) HPJava project started around 1997 HPJava lifts some ideas directly from HPF Syntax was simpler and there was scope to extend the features

Features of HPJava
HP Java adds to Java a concept of multidimensional arrays called multiarrays To support parallel programming, these multiarrays are extended to distributed arrays. The new distributed datastructures are cleanly integrated into the syntax of the language

Architecture of HP Java

Front-End Architecture

Issues in the language design


1 Extending the Java language HPJava can bound to other languages like C, C++ and Fortran. But Java is a convenient base language because it provides full objectorientation convenient for describing complex distributed It has been noted elsewhere that Java has various features suggesting it could be an attractive language for science and engineering

2 Datatypes in HPJava
In HPJava, variable names are divided into two sets. In general those declared using ordinary Java syntax represent local variables and those declared with [[ ]] represent global variables

3. Programming convenience
The language provides some special syntax for the programmer's convenience Unlike the syntax for data declaration, which has fundamental significance in the programming model, these extensions are purely provide syntactic conveniences.

Advantages
HPJava adds to Java is a multi-dimensional array, or multiarray, with properties similar to the arrays of Fortran HPJava supports parallel programming on distributed memory (and shared memory) parallel computers Any ordinary Java class can be invoked from an HPJava program without recompilation A translated and compiled HPJava program is a standard Java class file that can be executed by a distributed collection of Java Virtual Machines

Disadvantages
Many of the features of HPJava would be hard or impossible to achieve as Java libraries The compiler would not be able to perform static analysis and optimizations on them

Software for HPJava


There are two main parts to the software. The HPJava development kit, hpjdk contains the HPJava compiler and an implementation of the highlevel communication library, Adlib For Distributed-memory parallel computers, one should install the second HPJava package mpiJava

Conclusion
Our experience thus far is that Java is a good choice as a base language: it is easy to extend, and its safety features greatly simplify the compiler writers task HPJava will be most helpful for problems that have some degree of regularity

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