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HPC.NET - are CLI-based Virtual Machines Suitable for High Performance Computing?

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The Common Language Infrastructure is a new, standardized virtual machine that is likely to become popular on several platforms. In this paper we review whether this technology has any future in the high-performance computing community, for example by targeting the same application space as the Java-Grande Forum. We review the technology by benchmarking three implementations of the CLI and compare those with the results on Java virtual machines.

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