Presently the components of OpenVisualizer operate within a single process. We wish to extend this operation across processes and machines, as shown in the diagram below.
Implementations
Nanomsg and ZeroMQ provides a common messaging API for a variety of endpoints – threads, processes, and machines. It would be efficient to use a single tool for messaging across all domains.
Nanomsg
Nanomsg is developed by Martin Sústrik, the original author of ZeroMQ. Sústrik left ZeroMQ due to a dispute over trademarks, as described in a Linux Weekly News article.