[clug] Distributing a large file to many servers

[Simon Burton]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:40:34 +1100
Matthew Sheppard <stray at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> I'm hoping, however, this is one of those problems which was solved 
> neatly many years ago and is simple if you know the right tools.

This may be too heavy duty, but you could use MPI (MPI_Bcast):
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/

either from c code directly or from a python script:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpi4py

(i'm assuming these are 64 bit servers you have).

Simon.

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