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Java-Centric Grid Computing: Ibis 1.0 Released
rvannieuwpoort writes "Ibis 1.0 has been released. Ibis is a flexible and efficient Java-based programming environment for Grid computing. Ibis improves Java's serialization and RMI performance up to a factor of 10. It also extends Java with a range of communication paradigms, including group communication, divide-and-conquer and collective communication. An additional nice feature of Ibis is that it can communicate through firewalls, without opening ports, using TCP. Ibis is free software (BSD-style license). It runs on any platform that has a Java 1.4 or higher JVM."
They should include in the web some sort of example of a working distributed program, maybe something so simple as a "Hello world!" with every node writing a single chat in a array...
Just an idea!
As a developer I just love working examples.
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as long as the inner loops do not create objects. If you stick to operations on double[] and int[] arrays you'll be fine - it's the same speed as C. If you create garbage or use their Vector class - all bets are off - it will run 4 times slower than C.