Scalable Unix Commands for Parallel Computers (Ptools Project)

This page contains pointers to several documents associated with the Ptools Consortium Project, "Scalable Unix Commands for Parallel Computers".

The home page for the Ptools project itself is here

The standard format version of the proposal to the Steering Committee
A set of slides presenting the project is here
A paper about the project, from SHPCC '94.
README about the current state of the implementation.
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Although this is still very much in progress, some commands work in the prototype shell-script implementation. Try

pls -all /tmp to see contents of /tmp on all the machines.

pps 2 4 | grep root to see root processes on machines 2 through 4.

sutload to see load on all the machines.