[FRIAM] Sun's credibility in HPC not so good

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Guess y'all saw this:

http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1010_3-6137770.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

So much for Fortress, I guess.  Fortress is Sun's 
we-can-do-HPC-because-Java-ain't-it language.

I rather like the looks of IBM's effort, X10, in spite of the fact it 
superficially resembles Java.
I suppose it will eventually target the Cell processor but also I like 
it because it reminds me of Swarm (e.g. `clocks').

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/x10.index.html

Also, Cray's got some cool compiler technology, so I fully expect Chapel 
(http://chapel.cs.washington.edu) will be realized too.  

(Geez, they better, with each of these companies getting $250 million.)