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Laurent Cohen has released the Java Parallel Processing Framework (JPPF) 1.4, an open source Grid Computing platform written in Java. "The client has to split up the calculations into pieces that are executed in a single server node, and pass them to the JPPF framework. The atomic portions that are executed in a JPPF node are called tasks. It is up to the client application to define a reasonable part of the complete algorithm as a task. Small tasks may cause a high transport overhead, while large tasks may cause poor parallelism in execution." Java 5 or later is required. More...