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The Herdtools are a set of user-level cluster management and control utilities with a consistent command line interface. These include things like parallel file copy, remote execution, sudo execution, job kill, etc. We utilize Rob Brown's "procstatd" d
Queue is a load-balancing system popular in the 2000s that lets users control their remote jobs in an intuitive, transparent and nearly seamless way. Development versions feature job migration with and without kernel support. GNU Queue continues to be downloaded despite being decommissioned by the FSF in favor of the newer GNU Parallel project. Older versions of the code are archived here on Sourceforge and some later versions on GNU Savannah.