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We describe a family of MPI applications we call the Parallel Unix Commands. These commands are natural parallel versions of common Unix user commands such as ls, ps, and find, together with a few similar commands particular to the parallel environment. We describe the design and implementation of these programs and present some performance results on a 256-node Linux cluster. The Parallel Unix Commands are open source and freely available.
This work was supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38.
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Ong, E., Lusk, E., Gropp, W. (2001). Scalable Unix Commands for Parallel Processors: A High-Performance Implementation. In: Cotronis, Y., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45417-9_55
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