DESCRIPTION

The Cooperative Computing Tools (cctools) are a collection of programs designed to assist users with the difficulties of building and managing complex, fault-prone distributed systems. These components are:

Parrot - A personal virtual file system.

Chirp - A distributed file and storage system.

Makeflow - A workflow engine similar to Make.

Work Queue - A flexible master-worker library.

All-Pairs - A computational abstraction.

Wavefront - A computational abstraction.

Watchdog - A reliable process manager.

ftsh - A fault tolerant shell language.

FTP-Lite - A light weight FTP client library.

AUTHOR

coop-computing-tools were written by Douglas Thain and others.

This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).