| [Bash](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash) | Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). |
| [BeoPEST](http://www.prinmath.com/pest/) | BeoPEST is a special version of John Doherty's PEST adapted for Beowulf clusters. BeoPEST is identical in operation to Parallel PEST, except that it instead of a master and slaves that communicate through the file system, BeoPEST uses a master and smart slaves that communicate via TCP/IP or MPI. BeoPEST also uses smart slaves which offloads much of the effort to the slaves which is important for BeoPEST to scale to hundreds or thousands of slaves. More detail is provided in the BeoPEST Documentation. |
| [binutils](http://directory.fsf.org/project/binutils/) | binutils: GNU binary utilities |
| [bzip2](http://www.bzip.org/) | bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression. |
