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Do you have any special restrictions? If your server is running Linux, and you have some program written in Python/C++/Java, just install ROS and publish the topic from your program. The beginner tutorials show you how to do that. ROS nodes can easily be distributed across multiple machines, and all the communication is handled for you by ROS.

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