The Distributed occam Protocol -
A New Layer on Top of TCP/IP to Serve occam Channels Over the Internet
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Mario Schweigler


Networking, especially the internet, is playing a more and more important role
in our lives. Many new applications are distributed on several computers which
are connected over the internet.

The occam parallel processing language offers some features which make it
particularly suited for writing applications which are distributed over the
internet. Especially the channel paradigm which enables concurrent processes
to communicate with each other, is a good basis for distribution.

This project deals with the development of a distributed version of occam
channels which allow occam processes running on different computers to
communicate with each other in a similar way as they would do if they were
running on the same machine.