DP For Students

Overview:

DP is a library that facilitates the development of portable distributed applications. DP is designed to be very low-level (in the sense that the C language is low-level): its primitives closely match those provided by the underlying system. Using these, higher level libraries can be built. A simple but useful example of such a library is XDP (which is packaged with DP).

Resources:

The DP man pages
Guide to Compiling and Running DP
The DP Project (similar to this page)
USENIX '95: DP: A library for building portable, reliable distributed applications (A paper describing the rationale, facilities, and implementation of DP, as well as a scheme for building greater robustness in distributed applications.)
SIGCSE 95: XDP: A Simple Library for Teaching a Distributed Programming Module
(A paper describing XDP, a library that provides a simpler interface to the DP facilities.)

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