Data processing system for efficient communication of large quantities of data

A data processing system for processing data, comprising:

• a data processing device having at least one processor and at least one main memory, wherein at least one operating system and a plurality of data processing modules configured to perform data processing tasks are operated on the data processing device, wherein the operating system is configured to manage the data processing modules and in each case provide an interface, via which communication of the data processing modules via the operating system is made possible, wherein the data processing device further provides, on the main memory, an exchange memory to which direct access by at least two of the data processing modules is made possible so that the at least two data processing modules can communicate with each other without involvement of the operating system, wherein the exchange memory includes, for each respective data processing module of the at least two data processing modules, at least one exclusive zone in which the respective data processing module has exclusive write permissions in order to be able to communicate messages to other ones of the data processing modules without potential write access collisions.