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:
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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
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Regards,
Kamran Karimi