Remote Procedure Call : Implementation

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a powerful primitive used for communication and synchronization between distributed processes. Remote procedure calls (RPC) seemto be a helpful paradigm for providing communication across a network between programs written in a high-level language. RPC have a problem that it reduces the amount of parallelism, because it is synchronous in nature. This paper shows how simple processes can be used to find a way of avoiding a difficulty in this problem. We will describe how two important classes of algorithms, branch and sure are often run in exceedingly parallel manner exploitation the RPC. The results of some experiments comparing these algorithms on a single processor will be discussed. The combination of blocking RPC calls and light-weight processes provides both simple semantics and efficient exploitation of parallelism.