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Scalable Unix Commands on Parallel Computers

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abstract

A number of current parallel machines have a complete version of Unix on
each node. That is, it is possible to log in and execute normal process and
file maintenance commands ( ps, ls, cp, etc. This is sometimes
necessary to maintain files that are local to a node (e.g., in its \tmp) or to
examine processes that are running on the node. In some cases there are
vendor-supplied tools for doing this sort of thing, but at best they are
specialized to a particular machine, while at worst they don't exist. Our
experience has been that users prefer to use the commands familiar to
them. This project will attempt to provide such commands.

contact

lusk@mcs.anl.gov

keywords

parallel processing tools

environment

UNIX