Linda is a widely studied distributed computing
environment, centered around the notion of a tuple
space. A tuple space is a bag (also called a
multi-set) of tuples. A tuple is an ordered, typed
chunk of data. Tuple spaces exist independently of
processes in the system, and the data placed into
a tuple space also exist independently. PyLinda is
a simple implementation of a Linda system, but it
also includes several of the more recently
proposed extensions to Linda in the form of
multiple tuple spaces, garbage collection, sane
non-blocking primitives and bulk tuple operations.
