Looking for an IPC solution

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> There are just so many IPC modules out there. I'm looking for a 
> solution for developing a new a multi-tier application. The core 
> application will be running on a single computer, so the IPC should be 
> using shared memory (or mmap) and have very short response times. But 
> there will be a tier that will hold application state for clients, and 
> there will be lots of clients. So that tier needs to go to different 
> computers. E.g. the same IPC should also be accessed over TCP/IP. Most 
> messages will be simple data structures, nothing complicated. The 
> ability to run on PyPy would, and also to run on both Windows and 
> Linux would be a plus.
>
> I have seen a stand alone cross platform IPC server before that could 
> serve "channels", and send/receive messages using these channels. But 
> I don't remember its name and now I cannot find it. Can somebody 
> please help?
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Laszlo
>
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/execnet ? It sends/receives messages through 
channels, probably not the only one though. It requires only python 
installed on the remote machines.

JM