.TH "COOP-COMPUTING-TOOLS" "1" "May 2011" "Michael Hanke" "" .SH "NAME" coop-computing-tools \- share resources in a heterogeneous, and unreliable computing environment .SH "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: .TP Parrot \- A personal virtual file system. .TP Chirp \- A distributed file and storage system. .TP Makeflow \- A workflow engine similar to Make. .TP Work Queue \- A flexible master-worker library. .TP All-Pairs \- A computational abstraction. .TP Wavefront \- A computational abstraction. .TP Watchdog \- A reliable process manager. .TP ftsh \- A fault tolerant shell language. .TP FTP-Lite \- A light weight FTP client library. .SH "SEE ALSO" The coop-computing-tools homepage at .I http://nd.edu/~ccl/software .SH "AUTHOR" \fBcoop-computing-tools\fR were written by Douglas Thain and others. .PP This manual page was written by Michael Hanke , for the Debian project (but may be used by others).