InterProcessCommunication
Last edit November 17, 2009
InterProcessCommunication
such as
PipesAndFilters
MessagePassing
(
MailBoxes
)
SendReceiveReply
SendReceiveReplyEventually
ActorsModel
CommunicatingSequentialProcesses
UnixSignal
(software interrupts: very limited communication as it doesn't carry any data)
Sockets
SharedMemory
Files
Semaphore / mutex (usually used to coordinate access to
SharedMemory
)
PublishSubscribeModel
CommonObjectRequestBrokerArchitecture
(CORBA)
DistributedCom
JavaRemoteMethodInvocation
SimpleObjectAccessProtocol
/
XmlRpc
DotNetRemoting
MachPorts
Database querying /
OpenDataBaseConnectivity
/
TableOrientedSynchronization
http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?query=ipc
Some practical ways of doing this include
DistributedRuby
MessagePassingInterface
(mpi)
ParallelVirtualMachine
(pvm)
D-BUS
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-tutorial.html
See also
ParallelProgramming
ParallelProgrammingModel