Here is an interesting project:
http://code.google.com/p/ppss/
producing a shell script, which makes it quite easy to use multiple cores at once for many command-line operations, e.g., file format conversions and the like.
Here is an interesting project:
http://code.google.com/p/ppss/
producing a shell script, which makes it quite easy to use multiple cores at once for many command-line operations, e.g., file format conversions and the like.
You may also be interested in looking at GNU Parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
It solves many of the same problems but often has a more readable syntax.