Remote Procedure Call



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Remote Procedure Call

 

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a model that specifies how cooperating processes on different nodes in a heterogeneous computing environment can communicate and coordinate activities. RPC is an approach to providing distributed computing services in a heterogeneous computing environment. The paradigm of RPC is based on the concept of a procedure call in a higher level programming language. The semantics of RPC are almost identical to the semantics of the traditional procedure call. The major difference is that while a normal procedure call takes place between procedures of a single process in the same memory space on a single system, RPC takes place between processes on clients and servers in a heterogeneous computing environment.





Karen Olsen
Wed Aug 16 13:25:24 EDT 1995