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GNU Parallel 20130722 ('Engelbart') released

Item posted by Ole Tange <tange> on Mon 22 Jul 2013 10:31:20 AM UTC.

GNU Parallel 20130722 ('Engelbart') has been released. It is available for download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/

New in this release:

• --round-robin with --pipe will write all blocks to already running jobs.

• --env can now transfer Bash function for remote execution. That is pretty cool!

• GNU Parallel was used (unfortunately with improper citation) in: Understanding the Impact of E-Commerce Software on the Adoption of Structured Data on the Web. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38366-3_9#page-1

• GNU Parallel was used (unfortunately with improper citation) in: CWI at TREC 2012, KBA track and Session Track. http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec21/papers/CWI.kba.session.final.pdf

• Mitigation of Adverse Effects Caused by Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions through Optimal Wall Shaping. http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2013-2653

• Blog post: Using GNU parallel to convert images. http://www.brunokim.com.br/blog/?p=18

• Blog post: A quick way to parallelize. http://timotheepoisot.fr/2013/07/08/parallel/

• Blog post: GNU Parallel 20130522 ('Rana Plaza') 发布，并行作业执行. http://www.open-open.com/news/view/371301

• Quite a few bug fixes and man page updates.

About GNU Parallel

GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job is can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.

If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.

GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.

You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/

You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with: wget -O - pi.dk/3 | sh

Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1 or at
http://tinyogg.com/watch/TORaR/ and http://tinyogg.com/watch/hfxKj/

When using GNU Parallel for a publication please cite:

O. Tange (2011): GNU Parallel - The Command-Line Power Tool, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, February 2011:42-47.

About GNU SQL

GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases' command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.

The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database's interactive shell.

When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:

O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL - A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.

About GNU Niceload

GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit.