Xdistribute - harneshing the power of a cluster or a NOW

If you want to use xdistribute, and you want to use ssh to launch applications remotely, you will have to have sshd installed in the NOW and ssh and scp in the controller. Furthermore you should have a .shosts file in your home directory that contains the name of the controller and the user account in that computer.

e.g. klamath[1]> cat ~/.shosts
    klamath.stanford.edu molinero
    epic1.stanford.edu molinero


If you want to use distribute, and you want to use kerberos to launch applications remotely, you will have to have a kerberized NOW and controller. Xdistribute takes the -X kerberos flag to take this option. Furthermore you should have a .klogin file in your home directory with the tickets that you are willing to accept.

e.g. klamath[1]> cat ~/.klogin
    molinero@IR.STANFORD.EDU
You also have to do a kinit before launching xdistribute in order to get a ticket from the Kerberos server. klamath[1]> kinit
    Passwd:
klamath[1]> Xdistribute -p processes.txt -m machines.txt -X kerberos


You can get the programs from below:

Distribute