Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm From: Subject: An alternative Distributed Programming system Organization: World Lynx, Inc. Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:20:39 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Dear PVM users, I am writing this to see if anyone would be interested in an alternative and easy-to-use distributed programming system, called DIPC (Distributed Inter-Process Communication). DIPC makes the UNIX System V IPC mechanisms (messages, semaphores and shared memories) network trnsparent. It provides Transparent Distributed Shared Memory (DSM), which could make the task of program development _much_ easier (distributed programs can look a lot like their non-distributed counterparts). Programmers can use DIPC in any language they like, and there is no need to use special link libraries. Programming it is very much like programming normal System V IPC. Currently DIPC is available for Linux, both for i386 and m68k architectures. The two versions can talk to each other, meaning that DIPC is a heterogeneous distributed system. A port to NetBSD will start soon. For more information about DIPC you could visit http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc DIPC's sources and documents can be downloaded by anonymous FTP from sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/distrib/dipc, or from wallybox.cei.net. There is also a mailing list at linux-dipc@wallybox.cei.net Any comments are greatly appreciated. Regards, Kamran Karimi