Is there a tool available to execute several process in parallel in a Windows batch file? I have found some interesting tools for Linux (parallel and PPSS), however, I would need a tool for Windows platforms.
Bonus: It would be great if the tool also allowed to distribute processes in an easy way among several machines, running the processes remotely a la PsExec.
Example: I would like that in the following for loop
for %F in (*.*) do processFile.exe %F
a limited amount of instances of processFile.exe are running in parallel to take advantage of multi-core CPUs.
GNU xargs under Linux has a "-P n" switch to launch "n" processes in parallel.
Maybe cygwin/mingw build of xargs also supports this?
Then you can use:
xargs -P 4 processFile < fileList
No fancy multi-node process spawning, though.