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A Java Environment for High-Performance Computing
M. Lobosco, C. Amorim and O. Loques
There has been an increasing research interest in extending the use of Java towards highperformance demanding systems such as scalable web servers, multimedia applications,
and large-scale scientific applications. However, given the low performance provided by
current Java implementations, these application domains pose new challenges to both the
application designer and systems developer. In this paper we present CoJVM
(Cooperative Java Virtual Machine), a new Java environment for high-performance
computing designed to speed up Java applications when executing on DSM based
architectures implemented on clusters of workstations. The shared memory
implementation is based on the HLRC DSM protocol and takes advantage of run-time
information, extracted from the JVM, to improve application performance.