Last week Sun proposed to IBM's HPCS researchers they pool separate efforts on such a software language, an idea Sun said Darpa officials back. Sun also plans to invite Cray into the effort. Representatives from IBM and Cray were not available at press time.
The language could be used not just for the petascale systems in the project, but for a broader class of scientific and technical computers.
"Java has made it easy to program using a small number of threads. But in this [technical computing] world you have to handle thousands or hundreds of thousands of threads. We need the right language constructs to do that," Mitchell said.
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