Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi From: Kamran Subject: DIPC (Distributed IPC) version 1.0 is available Organization: World Lynx, Inc. Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 08:46:49 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: This is to announce that version 1.0 of DIPC (Distributed Inter-Process Communication) for Linux is available now. DIPC is no longer considered beta. DIPC can be used to build and program multi-computers, and provides distributed program developers with semaphores, messages and transparent distributed shared memory. The file dipc-1.0.tgz, containing the complete source code and documents, can be obtained by anonymous ftp from sunsite.unc.edu, in /incoming/Linux, or in /pub/Linux/system/network/distrib/dipc. Alternatively, it can be downloaded from DIPC's web page at http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc Previous versions of DIPC are hereby declared obsolete. The contents of the dipc-1.0.lsm file follows: Begin3 Title: DIPC (Distributed Inter-Process Communication) Version: 1.0 Entered-date: Oct. 30 1997 Description: DIPC enables you to build and program distributed (multi-computer) systems very easily. It works by making System V IPC mechanisms (shared memories, semaphores and messages) network transparent. Keywords: distributed parallel programming multi computer Kernel IPC DSM WAN TCP/IP UDP/IP heterogeneous environment Author: kamran@wallybox.cei.net (Kamran Karimi) Maintained-by: kamran@wallybox.cei.net (Kamran Karimi) schmitz@lcbvax.cchem.berkeley.edu (Michael Schmitz) Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/distrib/dipc 241kB dipc-1.0.tgz Alternate-site: wallybox.cei.net /pub/dipc 241kB dipc-1.0.tgz Platforms: Linux/i386, Linux/m68k, TCP/IP, UDP/IP Copying-policy: Freely distributable and usable, Copyright (C) Kamran Karimi End Regards, Kamran Karimi