Java for numerically intensive computing: From flops to gigaflops

Proceedings - Frontiers 1999, 7th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 251-257

  Midkiff, Samuel P ^a   Moreira, José E ^a   Snir, Marc ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); LINEAR ALGEBRA;

COMPILER TECHNOLOGY; INTENSIVE COMPUTING; JAVA LIBRARY; NUMERICAL COMPUTING; NUMERICAL PROGRAMMING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 78049344975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FMPC.1999.750607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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