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DCE 1993: DCE — The OSF Distributed Computing Environment Client/Server Model and Beyond pp 192–206Cite as

Integrating RPC and message passing for distributed programming

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Client-server and cooperative processing are two models for distributed programming. The client-server style is simple and powerful. Remote procedure call (RPC) is its communication mechanism. However, the cooperative processing style is more appropriate for expressing parallelism. Message passing is its communication method. In this paper, we describe a combined programming style and present a technique to integrate RPC and message passing in Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). This DCE extension allows DCE applications to be designed and implemented in clientserver, peer cooperative processing or a combination of both.

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  1. IBM Austin, 78758, Austin, TX, USA

    Yi-hsiu Wei

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, USA

    Chuan-lin Wu

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Wei, Yh., Wu, Cl. (1993). Integrating RPC and message passing for distributed programming. In: Schill, A. (eds) DCE — The OSF Distributed Computing Environment Client/Server Model and Beyond. DCE 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 731. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57306-2_35

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