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I used to use tmux to do this. Split the screen half a dozen times. Connect each pane to a separate instance. Enter `setw synchronize-panes on` and you are now running commands on 6 instances simultaneously. From there you can run `htop` to see resources being used on all instances on one monitor, run `apt-get` commands, etc.

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How do you split the screen into so many panes? tmux told me my panes were too small and refused to split further.

I guess I'd like to split it in groups of panes and maybe switch which groups is currently visible?

I had fairly large high-resolution monitor. 27" mac monitor, IIRC. I never ran into tmux telling me that I couldn't split further and could have upwards of 50 panes. Might be a new "feature"?

It's not quite as feature complete as cluster ssh, however I am also using it and have bound it to "v" with this tmux config:

bind-key v setw synchronize-panes

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