There are 4 Parallel bzip2 Implementations
Posted by Sachin Garg on 11th February 2006 | Permanent Link
A follow up to the recent pbzip2 update, I came across a few more similar solutions. None of these have been integrated (yet) in the official tree.
A Parallel (MPI) version, its also called pbzip2. This one doesn’t needs a multiprocessor or multicore machine. You can use multiple PCs on a network to collabrate with MPI. And there are two more SMP versions called BZIP2SMP and SMPBZIP2.
I wonder how all 4 of these compare to each other. I hope the benchmark maintainers are listening, they will like to take them for a test drive.