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Functional Addressing
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Location transparent addressing allows
a client application to access a server
without having to know its
precise location in the network.
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Address scoping can be used to restrict communication
to a designated subset of the network.
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Adaptability
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A network topology service lets applications track
both functional and physical changes in the network,
helping to synchronize startup of distributed applications
and their responses to failure conditions.
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Application Interface
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Socket API allows applications to communicate
using byte streams, connection-based datagrams,
and connectionless datagrams.
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Connectionless datagrams can be multicast
to multiple destinations at once.
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Kernel-based applications can utilize
a proprietary API for low-overhead messaging.
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Reliability
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Provides reliable message delivery for both
connection-based and connectionless messages.
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Provides rapid feedback when message delivery
is impossible.
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Continuous communication link monitoring ensures
automatic retransmission of lost messages,
and failover to redundant links,
without impacting applications.
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Performance
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Provides performance that typically equals or surpasses
an equivalent system built using
IP-based network communication protocols.
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Scalability
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Supports network configurations ranging from
a single cluster containing a handful of nodes
to a multi-cluster network
containing many processing elements.
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Footprint
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Requires fewer resources than an equivalent system
that uses IP-based protocols.
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Licensing
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Distributed as an open source product
under a dual BSD/GPL license.
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