Architecturing an IPC project
The Mandelbrot picture generator from Chapter 9, Keeping Your Sanity with Multithreading, uses all cores of your computer to speed up the computing. This time, we want to use all the cores of all your computers! The first thing to do is to choose an appropriated IPC technique. For this project example, we want to establish communication between several clients acting as workers to a server running the main application. The TCP/IP sockets allows a one-to-many communication. Moreover, this IPC method is not bounded to a single computer and can operate through a network on multiple computers. This project example uses sockets by implementing a multi-threaded TCP server.
The next diagram describes the architecture:
Let's talk about the global role of each actor:
mandelbrot-app: This is the main application displaying the Mandelbrot picture and handling user mouse events. However, in this chapter, the application does not compute the algorithm itself but rather generates...
