Communication Links
Links: data type, realize communication channels, i.e., something SINGULAR can read to or write from.
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- any data can be written; read/write is not the fastest, but the most general
- DBM (Standard Unix database)
- provides access to data stored in a data base
- MP file
- stores data in binary and very compact format Multi Protocol (MP) format; read/write is very fast
- MP TCP (Socket based, Client/Server links)
- exchanges data in binary format (MPP) between processes (on the same or different computers); data exchange is very efficient
- SINGULAR can currently communicate with itself (parallel/distributed computations), with Mathematica, and MuPAD (i.e., SINGULAR can be called from these programs and vice-versa).