PCP Installation Instructions

0.1, 2002-02-27

Revision History
Revision 0.12002-02-27
Initial version.

pcp is a tool for replicating files on multiple nodes of a PC cluster. Replication is done by building an n-ary tree of TCP sockets and using parallelized, pipelined data transfers which use RSA authentication. This document briefly describes how to download, build, install, and use pcp.


Table of Contents
1. Downloading, Building, and Installing pcp
2. Using pcp
2.1. Setting your PATH
2.2. Writing a file to multiple nodes
2.3. Checksumming a file on multiple nodes
2.4. Deleting a file on multiple nodes
2.5. Optimizing the Distribution Tree