Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> (09/03/2009): > which makes parallel not take a command, but executes commands from > stdin. That can however be obtained by xargs sh -c. Another option > that xargs misses is > > -j +N Add N to the number of CPUs. Run this many jobs in parallel. > For compute intensive jobs -j +0 is useful as it will run > number-of-cpus jobs in parallel. > > -j -N Subtract N from the number of CPUs. Run this many jobs in > parallel. If the evaluated number is less than 1 then 1 will > be used. > > -j N% Multiply N% with the number of CPUs. Run this many jobs in > parallel. If the evaluated number is less than 1 then 1 will > be used.
Particularly useful in cluster environments. :) Mraw, KiBi.
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