One shot deals

• Often users logged into master run sequential jobs that just bogs down the master

• Have them do bpsh -NY command to offload these jobs on a slave instead

• Users on old machines or X terminals can treat the master as a compute server

• Set up aliases to automatically run compute intensive tasks on a slave

  • alias gzip='bpsh -Ny gzip'

• Partially offload commands

  • tar cvf - * | bpsh -Ny bzip2 > all.tar.bz2

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