Chapter 29: Distributed MIL

This chapter describes how to set up a Distributed MIL application. Distributed MIL allows for multiple MIL systems to interact across a network.

• Distributed MIL overview
• • Setup and installation
  • Client-server architecture
• Basic concepts for Distributed MIL
• Preparing computers for Distributed MIL
• • Setting up the Distributed MIL server on remote computers
  • Managing network connections and ports
  • • Cluster modes and port range
  • Firewall configuration
  • Licensing considerations
• Controlling configuration
• • Steps to create a Distributed MIL controlling configuration
  • Allocating DMIL remote systems
  • • Allocating a remote system by default
  • Execution of MIL functions on remote systems
  • Remote displays
  • Default values on remote systems
  • Files on remote systems
  • Asynchronous calls
  • Multi-threading
  • Executing a user-defined function on the remote system
• Monitoring configuration
• • Steps to create a Distributed MIL monitoring configuration
  • Cluster manager
  • Publishing application
  • Monitoring application
  • Using published MIL identifiers
  • Displaying a published image buffer
• Distributed MIL on your local computer
• • Developing and debugging a Distributed MIL application
  • Using a 32-bit MIL application to access Matrox hardware under a 64-bit operating system
  • Steps to use Distributed MIL on your local computer
• Best practice