Inter Process Communication

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