[Beowulf] Re: looking for good distributed shell program

[Tim Cutts]

On 11 May 2010, at 11:53 pm, Dave Love wrote:

> Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>>> We use Dancer's shell "dsh":
>>> 
>>> http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en
>> 
>> Second that recommendation - we use that one too.  It's pre-packaged for Debian family distros, dunno about RPM flavour distros.
> 
> Why that rather than pdsh, especially in an HPC setting?  (pdsh is in
> Debian too, for what it's worth.)

No explicit reason - it was the first one we encountered that did what we needed.

Tim

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