RPC is used to call other processes on the remote systems like a local system. A procedure call is also sometimes known as a function call or a subroutine call. RPC uses the client-server model. The requesting program is a client, and the service-providing program is the server.
Is RPC used today?
The RPC paradigm has been used to implement our every-day systems. ... Modern RPC systems have endpoints communicating with each other, asynchronously passing arguments and processing responses, as well as having two-way request-response streams (from client to server, and also from server to client).
What are the RPC applications?
In this section we discuss a few examples of applications in which Remote Procedure Call has been used effectively at CERN.
- Remote File access. Remote file and database access was one of the earliest uses of RPC. ...
- Remote Graphics. ...
- Remote software task management Load/Start/Control. ...
- Other Examples.
