Simple Parallel Exec, version #1 ( #2 > ... #24)

1. Goal

Provide a very easy way to run one program with different commandline parameters on a bunch of computers in parallel and collect the results. There should be a simple observation that determines if the machine is still available and if not then give the task to someone else.

1. Why not use something like MPI

• Well, first of all the program I want to run are not witten in C.
• I could write a MPI client that executes my program with the parameters, but then I can just use a shell script.
• I need a more flexibel way to grasp the results. For example some output goes to a file. A shell or perl script seams to be more convinient to do a flexible conversion.

1. Implementation Details