You don't necessarily need the subprocess module to do this, though you could use it.
I've done this sort of thing in the past with fork and exec. To serialize the jobs on the machines, the easiest thing is to just send the commands all at once to a given machine, like "command1; command2; command3". You can use waitpid or similar to check if a series of jobs has finished on a particular machine. An example of something similar can be found at http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/loop.html (If you look at the code, be kind. I wrote it long ago :) There's a benefit to saving the output from each machine into a single file for that machine. If you think some machines will produce the same output, and you don't want to see it over and over, you can analyze the files with something like http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/equivalence-classes.html . On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:46:20 +0000, JD wrote: > Hi, > > I want send my jobs over a whole bunch of machines (using ssh). The > jobs will need to be run in the following pattern: > > (Machine A) (Machine B) (Machine C) > > Job A1 Job B1 Job C1 > > Job A2 Job B2 etc > > Job A3 etc > > etc > > Jobs runing on machine A, B, C should be in parallel, however, for > each machine, jobs should run one after another. > > How can I do it with the subprocess? > > > Thanks, > > JD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
