Java Message Passing Package - A Design and Implementation of MPI in Java

We present a design and an implementation of the MPI (Message Passing Interface) standard in the Java language, called JMPP (Java Message Passing Package). Our implementation is not an interface from the Java language to existing MPI libraries. Rather, the implementation is completely coded in Java. Therefore, JMPP maintains the platform-independence property of Java. Furthermore, JMPP enhances the MPI standard with object-oriented features by ooering a Java language binding for MPI. This binding is not simply a direct mapping from the functions in MPI to the methods in Java. It is a library that makes use of classes, objects, and methods to achieve the functionality of MPI. We will discuss the Java binding and the implementation of JMPP.