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I am fairly new to UNIX so pardon me if the following questions seem trivial.
I have some basic UNIX books, but they do not cover the following:

I have two applications that can run totally independent.  My goal is to
link the two programs via stdout and file sharing.  Because each process
is computationally intensive, I would like to run the process concurrently
on two different processors (either one machine when dual processors are
available to me, or two machines).  I realize this is a global hunger
problem so my initial goal is to have both programs running on one machine
concurrently.

From my simple point of view, two possibilities come to mind:

        1.  Have each process run in the background of a single shell
        2.  Have each process run under seperate shells

I would appreciate any information on how to accomplish this task or where
I can get the information to accomplish this task.

Note:  I have an HP 715/50 and reading the man pages on the shell (ksh) has
only confused me.

: I am fairly new to UNIX so pardon me if the following questions seem trivial.
: I have some basic UNIX books, but they do not cover the following:

: I have two applications that can run totally independent.  My goal is to
: link the two programs via stdout and file sharing.  Because each process
: is computationally intensive, I would like to run the process concurrently
: on two different processors (either one machine when dual processors are
: available to me, or two machines).  I realize this is a global hunger
: problem so my initial goal is to have both programs running on one machine
: concurrently.

: From my simple point of view, two possibilities come to mind:

:       1.  Have each process run in the background of a single shell

(command1 | command2)&
tough, huh?

:       2.  Have each process run under seperate shells

Running commands on two seperate, networked machines
command1 | rcomand machine2 command2
  -or-
to do it in the background
(command1 | rcomand machine2 command2)&

: I would appreciate any information on how to accomplish this task or where
: I can get the information to accomplish this task.

Welcome to the world of Unix.

: Note:  I have an HP 715/50 and reading the man pages on the shell (ksh) has
: only confused me.

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