Heterogeneous programming with Java: gourmet blend or just a hillof beans?

摘要

The heterogeneous parallel processing community has long beenstruggling to bring its approach to computation into the mainstream. Onemajor impediment is that no popular programming language supports asufficiently wide range of models of parallelism. The recent emergenceof Java as a popular programming language may offer an opportunity tochange this situation. The article begins with a review of the speciallinguistic and computational needs of heterogeneous parallel processingby considering the user communities that would benefit most from theapproach. It then reviews the pros and cons of Java as a language forexpressing and realizing heterogeneity, and concludes with some possiblechanges that would make Java more suitable for such use