Re: MPI and Java

[rossini@blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini)]

>>>>> "e" == exa  <Eray> writes:

    e> Viral wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >> 
    >> Is it possible to use MPI in java programs ?  Is there any
    >> software available which can do this ?

    e> Well, MPI is about high performance. A '99 paper I read about
    e> Java MPI showed it to be 20 times slower than MPI in
    e> C/C++/FORTRAN so I don't think that's a good bet :)

And we can safely discount the gains by Java bytecompiler technology,
right :-)?

best,
-tony

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