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Unit 4: Communication By Prashant Gautam
Outlines Background • Foundation • RPC • Message-Oriented Communication • Multicast Communication • Case Study: Java RMI and MPI
• Modern distributed systems often consist of thousands or even millions of processes scattered across a network with unreliable communication such as the Internet. • Unless the primitive communication facilities of computer networks are replaced by something else, development of large-scale distributed applications is extremely difficult.