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Current State of Java for HPC

Abstract

About ten years after the Java Grande effort, this paper aims at providing a snapshot of the current status of Java for High Performance Computing. Multi-core chips are becoming mainstream, offering many ways for a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to take advantage of such systems for critical tasks such as Just-In-Time compilation or Garbage Collection. We first perform some micro benchmarks for various JVMs, showing the overall good performance for basic arithmetic operations. Then we study a Java implementation of the Nas Parallel Benchmarks, using the ProActive middleware for distribution. Comparing this implementation with a Fortran/MPI one, we show that they have similar performance on computation intensive benchmarks, but still have scalability issues when performing intensive communications. Using experiments on clusters and multi-core machines, we show that the performance varies greatly, depending on the Java Virtual Machine used (version and vendor) and the kind of computation performed.
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inria-00312039 , version 1 (25-08-2008)

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Brian Amedro, Vladimir Bodnartchouk, Denis Caromel, Christian Delbe, Fabrice Huet, et al.. Current State of Java for HPC. [Technical Report] RT-0353, INRIA. 2008, pp.26. ⟨inria-00312039⟩
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