I've been using GNU Parallel for orchestrating running remote scripts/tools on a bunch of machines in my compute and storage cluster. Its now my goto tool for a

I've been using GNU Parallel for orchestrating running remote scripts/tools on a bunch of machines in my compute and storage cluster. Its now my goto tool for almost any remote ssh task that needs to hit a bunch of machines at once. An excellent tool ...apparently an improvement on xargs even for local parallel tasks ( see http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104778/gnu-parallel-vs-i-mean-background-vs-xargs-p http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104778/gnu-parallel-... )