Treffer: Editorial: Special Issue: ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference.

The article highlights the ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference, held in San Francisco, California from June 12-14, 1999. The Java Grande conference focuses on the use of Java in the broad area of high-performance computing, including engineering and scientific applications, simulations, data-intensive applications, and other emerging application areas that exploit parallel and distributed computing or combine communication and computing. The goal is to provide feedback to users and language developers on what is required to successfully deploy Java in a broad range of scientific and high-performance network computing systems.