Article on Marc Tremblay, chief architect of Sun's Scalable Systems Group, who began the multicore, multithread Throughput Computing program. Contrarian Minds Archive.
Article on Guy Steele, chief architect of Sun's new Fortress language, part of a larger Sun Labs effort to create a design for the supercomputer of the future. Contrarian Minds Archive.
Research Java VM, examines better ways to build VMs. Most commercial VMs are coded in low level languages: C, assembly. Goal: write as much of VM as possible in Java, for portability, debugging, maintainability. Inspired by Squeak project.
Article on David Yen, head of Sun's Scalable Systems Group, who directs the multicore, multithread Throughput Computing program. Contrarian Minds Archive.