[vtkusers] vtkSocketCommunicator etc.

[Berk Geveci]

You have a few options:
1. Use RMIs (see vtkMultiProcessController and vtkSocketController)
which have send/receive in them. For example, setup a 
ReceiveNewParameter RMI on the server and have a Receive call in it.
Then the client can do something like
 controller->TriggerRMI(1, RECEIVE_RMI_TAG);
 controller->Send( the parameters here )
2. Use RMIs and the support for sending an array with the RMI
 controller->Trigger(1, array, array_length, DO_SOMETHING_TAG);
Your RMI will now receive this array
3. Use something like Tcl, Python etc. and send commands as strings
which are executed on the server
4. Use a second communication mechanism (such as corba, some other
RMI library etc..) together with communicators

I am sure there are others. These are the ones I can think of now.

-Berk


On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:50, Ravi Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been experimenting with vtkSocketCommunicator and associated 
> classes to run vtkMarchingCubes on a remote machine and display the 
> results on a local machine. It works great! This will allow me to use 
> high end computation resources at a remote location.
> 
> Question
> --------
> How do i send the remote process running marching cubes information such 
> as a new iso surface value to compute?
> 
> I have a few ideas that would require some hacking but I was wondering 
> if this problem was already solved by someone. A look at the classes in 
> VTK 4.n does not seem to explicitly provide an answer.
> 
> Thanks for providing these classes. I was about to write my own :)
> 
> -Ravi
> 
> 
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