A lightweight, flow-based toolkit for parallel and distributed bioinformatics pipelines

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 3 PaPy's interprocess communication (IPC) methods

Method	OS	Remarks
socket	all	Communication, via TCP sockets, between hosts connected within a computer network
pipes	Unix like	Communication between processes on a single host
files	all	The file storage location must be accessible by all processes (e.g., over an NFS or Samba share).

PaPy provides the following direct IPC methods (see also Fig. 4), valid on operating systems as indicated.

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