SPARC: Application Interface to Remote Shared Memory on Clusters

If you develop applications that extend the use of a Sun Cluster environment, you can benefit from this interface. Using the new Remote Shared Memory (RSM) API, you can program your applications to lower the latency for message passing over high-speed cluster interconnects. Such cluster-aware applications can significantly reduce the time that is required to respond to events in a clustered configuration.

You must have Sun Cluster 3.0 installed. Existing Sun Cluster applications need to be modified to exploit the new interface.

For further information, see the Programming Interfaces Guide. Also, the librsm(3LIB) man pages and the “Section 3: Extended Library Functions” (3RSM) man pages include references to RSM.