2002•Unpublished venueOpen access

Scalable Unix tools on parallel processors

William Gropp, Ewing Lusk

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The introduction of parallel processors that run a separate copy of Unix on each process has introduced new problems in managing the user's environment. This paper discusses some generalizations of common Unix commands for managing files (e.g. 1s) and processes (e.g. ps) that are convenient and scalable. These basic tools, just like their Unix counterparts, are text-based. We also discuss a way to use these with a graphical user interface (GUI). Some notes on the implementation are provided. Prototypes of these commands are publically available.>

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Key concepts: Unix, Computer science, Scalability, Operating system, Graphical user interface, Unix architecture, Programming language, Process (computing)