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+Source: cctools
+Tasks: debian-science/distributedcomputing
+Version: 3.3.0
+Homepage: http://nd.edu/~ccl/software/
+Responsible: NeuroDebian Team <team@neuro.debian.net>
+Language: C, Python
+Author: Douglas Thain
+License: GPL-2
+WNPP: 618774
+Pkg-Description: cooperative computing tools
+ This is a collection of software that help users to share resources in a
+ complex, heterogeneous, and unreliable computing environment. This includes:
+ .
+ Chirp - A personal filesystem and I/O protocol that allows unprivileged users
+ to share space securely, efficiently, and conveniently. When combined
+ with Parrot, Chirp allows users to create custom wide-area distributed
+ filesystems.
+ Parrot - A transparent user-level virtual filesystem that allows any ordinary
+ program to be attached to a remote storage device such as an FTP
+ server or a Chirp server.
+ Makeflow - A workflow system for parallel and distributed computing that uses
+ a language very similar to Make.
+ Work Queue - A system and API for building master-worker style programs that
+ scale up to thousands of processors.
+ All Pairs - A computational abstraction for running very large Cartesian
+ products.
+ Wavefront - A computational asbtraction for running very large dynamic
+ programming problems.
+ The Fault Tolerant Shell - A high-level programming language that allows
+ users to combine the ease of shell scripting, the power of distributed
+ programming, and the precision of compiled languages. Basically,
+ parallel programming and exception handling for scripts.