A Model for Transparent Distribution using Java

While programming of Von-Neumann machines is a relatively well established and understood discipline, the programming of parallel machines is rich with methodologies and paradigms. This partly reflects the various hardware designs (SIMD, MIMD, SMP and so on), but also reflects the lack of understanding about the field, and possibly the fact that parallel programming is conceptually more complex and simply more difficult than serial programming. The two most common parallel hardware designs seem to be MIMD and SMP designs, and popular parallel programming paradigms are often based around these two models. SMP architecture offers much simpler program construction (in which locality of data and processing can be ignored) while MIMD architecture offers a much larger scale machine in which large numbers of processors do not make memory access a bottleneck. Java is a language which has been designed to run on an SMP architecture, and provides an SMP model to the user - all data is generally..