Indeed it's almost trivial. I wrote a similar tool that is also able to split chunks of work between different machines: https://github.com/dullgiulio/empa/tree

Indeed it's almost trivial. I wrote a similar tool that is also able to split chunks of work between different machines: https://github.com/dullgiulio/empa/tree/master/cmd/ep https://github.com/dullgiulio/empa/tree/master/cmd/ep But again, no IPC, just a simplified "GNU Parallel."