
In this paper, we evaluate Titanium's usability as a high-level parallel programming language through a case study, where we implement a subset of Chombo's functionality in Titanium. Chombo is a software package applying the adaptive mesh refinement methodology to numerical partial differential equations at the production level. In Chombo, the library approach is used to parallel programming (C++ and Fortran, with MPI), whereas Titanium is a Java dialect designed for high-performance scientific computing. The performance of our implementation is studied and compared with that of Chombo in solving Poisson's equation based on two grid configurations from a real application. Also provided are the counts of lines of code from both sides.
Titanium, Performance, Fortran, Computing, Partial Differential Equations, Production, General and miscellaneous//mathematics, Processing, 99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, and information science, computing, Implementation, And Information Science, Programming, Programming Languages, Java, General and miscellaneous//mathematics, computing, and information science
Titanium, Performance, Fortran, Computing, Partial Differential Equations, Production, General and miscellaneous//mathematics, Processing, 99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, and information science, computing, Implementation, And Information Science, Programming, Programming Languages, Java, General and miscellaneous//mathematics, computing, and information science
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