DIPC-a monitor for distributed inter-process communication

Author

Ammann, Eckhard M.

Author_Institution

Fachlochschule Reutlingen, Germany

fYear

1995

fDate

25-27 Jan 1995

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

279

Abstract

DIPC, a monitor for distributed inter-process communication (distributed IPC), is described. In a distributed environment, it transparently provides all important IPC constructs for communication and synchronization between processes, which are normally given by a modern conventional (uniprocessor) operating system environment. In addition, new classes of shared objects in the distributed environment may be included in DIPC. The paper defines the requirements for distributed IPC, then presents the user´s view of DIPC (a set of application programming interfaces for several classes of distributed IPC objects) and the DIPC implementation ideas. Existing example programs from the area of both distributed and parallel programming are mentioned

Keywords

application program interfaces; distributed memory systems; message passing; network operating systems; parallel programming; shared memory systems; DIPC; DIPC implementation ideas; IPC constructs; application programming interfaces; distributed IPC; distributed environment; distributed inter-process communication; monitor; parallel programming; shared objects; synchronization; user view; Kernel; Local area networks; Microcomputers; Monitoring; Multiprocessing systems; Operating systems; Packaging; Parallel programming; Workstations; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1995. Proceedings. Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Remo

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7031-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.1995.389134

Filename

389134