Publications

2003

Rob V. van Nieuwpoort:
Efficient Java-Centric Grid-Computing,
Ph.D. thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
September 2003.
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2002
Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Rutger Hofman, Thilo Kielmann, Henri E. Bal:
Ibis: an Efficient Java-based Grid Programming Environment,
Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2002 Conference,
pp 18-27, November 3-5, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA.

2001
Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Thilo Kielmann, and Henri E. Bal:
Efficient Load Balancing for Wide-area Divide-and-Conquer Applications.
Proc. Eighth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'01),
Snowbird, UT, June 18-19, 2001.
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R. Veldema, R.F.H. Hofman, R.A.F. Bhoedjang, C.J.H. Jacobs, and Henri E. Bal:
Jackal: A Compiler-Supported Distributed Shared Memory implementation of Java.
Proc. Eighth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'01),
Snowbird, UT, June 18-19, 2001.
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R. Veldema, and Henri E. Bal:
Optimizing Java specific overheads, Java at the speed of C ?
Proc. HPCN 2001
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A. Nelisse, T. Kielmann, and H.E. Bal, and J. Maassen:
Object-based Collective Communication in Java.
Proc. Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2001 Conference,
Stanford University, CA, June 2-4, 2001.
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R. Veldema, R.F.H. Hofman, R.A.F. Bhoedjang, and Henri E. Bal:
Runtime Optimizations for a Java DSM implementation.
Proc. Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2001 Conference
Stanford University, California, June 2-4, 2001.
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Jason Maassen, Thilo Kielmann, and Henri E. Bal:
Parallel Application Experience with Replicated Method Invocation.
Accepted for publication in Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience, 2001.
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Arnold Nelisse, Jason Maassen, Thilo Kielmann, and Henri E. Bal:
CCJ: Object-based Message Passing and Collective Communication in Java.
Accepted for publication in Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience.
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Jason Maassen, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Ronald Veldema, Henri Bal, Thilo Kielmann, Ceriel Jacobs, Rutger Hofman:
Efficient Java RMI for Parallel Programming,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Sciences, March 2000.
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) 2001.
Volume 23 , Issue 6 (November 2001), pages 747 - 775.
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2000
Rob van Nieuwpoort, Thilo Kielmann, and Henri E. Bal:
Satin: Efficient Parallel Divide-and-Conquer in Java,
Proc. Euro-Par 2000, Munich, Germany, August 29 - September 1, 2000.
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Jason Maassen, Thilo Kielmann, and Henri E. Bal:
Efficient Replicated Method Invocation in Java,
Proc. ACM 2000 Java Grande Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 3-4, 2000.
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1999
M. Dewanchand and R. Blankendaal:
The usablility of Java for developing parallel applications,
Master's thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, August 1999.
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E.M. Thieme:
Parallel Programming in Java: Porting a Distributed Barnes-Hut implementation,
Master's thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, August 1999.
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Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal, Thilo Kielmann, and Ronald Veldema:
Wide-Area Parallel Programming using the Remote Method Invocation Model.,
Online ISSN: 1096-9128, Print ISSN: 1040-3108
Concurrency: Practice and Experience Volume 12, Issue 8, 2000. Pages: 643-666
(Special Issue: ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference (Part 3). Issue Edited by Geoffrey Fox.)
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Henri E. Bal, Aske Plaat, Thilo Kielmann, Jason Maassen, Rob van Nieuwpoort, and Ronald Veldema:
Parallel Computing on Wide-Area Clusters: the Albatross Project,
Proc. Extreme Linux Workshop, pp. 20-24, Monterey, CA, June 8-10, 1999.
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Rob van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal, Thilo Kielmann, and Ronald Veldema:
Wide-area parallel computing in Java,
Proc. ACM 1999Java Grande Conference, pp. 8-14, San Francisco, CA, June 12-14, 1999.
Also published in the proceedings of ASCI'99, the fifth annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, pp. 338-347, Heijen, The Netherlands, June 15-17, 1999.
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Jason Maassen, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Ronald Veldema, Henri E. Bal, and Aske Plaat:
An Efficient Implementation of Java's Remote Method Invocation,
Proc. Seventh ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'99), pp. 173-182, Atlanta, GA, May 4-6, 1999.
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1998
Ronald Veldema, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal, and Aske Plaat:
Efficient Remote Method Invocation,
Technical Report IR-450, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, September, 1998.
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Ronald Veldema:
Jcc, a native Java compiler,
Master's thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, August 1998.
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J. Maassen and R. van Nieuwpoort:
Fast Parallel Java,
Master's thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, August 1998.
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Talks

To get a good idea of what the Manta project is about, you can browse through these online presentations:

Efficient Load Balancing for Wide-Area Divide and Conquer Applications,
Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, PPoPP 2001, July 2001, Snowbird, UT, USA.
Postscript version
Satin: Efficient parallel divide-and-conquer in Java,
Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Euro-Par 2000, August 2000, Munich, Germany.
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Efficient Replicated Method Invocation in Java,
Jason Maassen, ACM 2000 Java Grande Conference, June 2000, San Fransisco.
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An Efficient Implementation of Java's Remote Method Invocation,
Jason Maassen PPoPP, May 1999
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Wide-area parallel computing in Java,
Rob van Nieuwpoort, Fifth annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI'99), Heijen, The Netherlands, June 1999.
Henri Bal, ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference, June 1999.
Henri Bal, Dept. of Computer Science, Free University, Berlin, Germany, October 22, 1999.
Henri Bal, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Coimbra, Protugal, October 15, 1999.
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