The goals of the High-Performance CORBA Working Group are to identify areas of possible standardization activities and define standards for supporting those CORBA applications which:

1. are willing to specify more detailed control or hints to achieve higher performance than that which is possible or expected by internal ORB optimization alone (distinct from issues of determinism or measurement and instrumentation) - e.g. smart proxies, multi-threading, annotations, and exposing caches;
   
   

2. exploit aggregated processing by using multiple processors to accelerate a single task. Such application areas are sometimes referred to as "cluster" or "parallel" computing. Signal processing is an important domain of such applications. - e.g., collective operations, distributed synchronization, and data distribution.
   
   

3. Highlight (perceived or real) performance limitations of core interfaces and recommend areas of possible change.

Additional roles may include:

Performance vetting of submissions and education with regard to achieving higher performance in application design and implementation.

The scope of the WG is defined in the mission statement, above. Here, we set the High Performance CORBA WG aside other active OMG groups, by specifically pointing out what we see not as part of the scope of this WG.

• Real-Time SIG focusses on determinism and various aspects of QoS.
• Benchmark SIG focuses on instrumentation issues.
• Embedded WG focuses on memory footprint.

The WG reports to the Real Time Platform SIG (RT PSIG).

Group Resources: 

Burlingame, CA, US, November 9th - 13th, 1998.

Presentations:
• Message Passing Interface by Jim Kulp, Mercury;
• Performance-driven clustering and load balancing, by TBA;
• Positioning Smart Proxies against Interceptors, by Paul Runyan, Nokia.

Following are a collection of Internet resources and mailing lists about High-Performance Computing. If you would like to add resources, please forward them to the chairs of the WG.
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