Force partnered with MontaVista Software Inc. to demonstrate multiprocessing with Hard Hat Linux and CompactPCI hardware. Force showed MontaVista's HardHat Linux running on its CompactPCI hardware in a Multiprocessing Demonstration based on the X-Pilot game. The server is configured to run on one CPCI board while multiple clients are configured to run on the other CPCI boards, that can also include the CPCI board configured as the server itself.
Shared memory is established between the boards to serve as the actual communications medium.
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