| shell name | current version |
last update (as of November 4, 2007) |
distribution formats | Language |
how exactly is this "distributed" or "parallel"? |
| PDSH | 2.16 | April 3, 2008 | RPM, tar.gz | C | "sliding window" parallel algorithm |
| Dancer's DSH | 0.25.9 | Aug 15, 2007 | DEB, tar.gz | C | "Hierarchical invocation technique" "4 nodes accessing 4 nodes" ... |
| ClusterIt | 2.5 | February 27, 2008 | tar.gz | C | N-way fanout |
| C3 tools | 4.0.1 | July 15, 2003 | RPM, tar.gz | Python | sub-cluster staging |
| shell | 96 node 'uptime' timing | 96 node 4 nonexistent hosts |
96 node 3 down hosts |
| pdsh | 2.521 s | 2.473 s | 4.940 s |
| psh (xcat) | 9.103 s | 9.464 s | 12.610 s |
| dancer's dsh | 1.482 s | 1.403 s | 3.942 s |
Here are some that have apparently gone on...