The Lazy System Administrator’s Way to Virtualize

Big-Box Science
A few months ago, I wrote a piece about how you can use MPI to run a parallel program over a number of machines that are networked together. But more and more often, your plain-old...

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Command Line Magic: Scripting, Part One
Creating shell scripts is the lazy (smart) system administrator's way to automate and build intelligence into repetitive tasks. Continue reading →