Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

This is going to sound convoluted, however, this is how I need to do things.

I have three awesome machines and a couple hundred jobs. EACH of these jobs takes approximately 4 hours to complete. I want to give jobs to each of these machines, and their respective CPUs in an intelligent way. I basically would like to emulate a cluster, however, I cannot actually use a cluster (we don't want to hook up the machines to our already existing cluster, and don't also want to install a cluster on these machines...as this is really an emergency,hopefully limited one time, manner of usage).

Basically, what I would like to script is:
From one machine: assign jobs to the available CPUs on that machine, ALSO, from the one machine, assign jobs to the CPUs available on the other machines.

It needs to:
1) Apply no more than one job per CPU, and use only a total of 10 CPUs on each machine.
2) Not execute more jobs to a CPU until the job which is working away on it complete.

..as you can see, I basically need to emulate a cluster and it's queueing, deploying machinery...without installing a cluster. All of these machines are on the same network and share the same file system. Is this possible at all?

Thanks.

IMO this is largely OS dependent, so which one are you using?