old_contents: import itertools
  
  
  n_steps = 10
  #
  base_str = ' '.join([
    'python runtime_scripting.py',
    '--num_rows %s',
    '--num_cols %s',
    '--num_clusters %s',
    '--num_splits %s',
    '--n_steps %s' % n_steps,
    '-do_remote >>out 2>>err &',
    ])
  
  num_rows_list = [100, 400, 1000]
  num_cols_list = [4, 16, 32]
  num_clusters_list = [10, 20, 50]
  num_splits_list = [1, 2, 4]
  take_product_of = [num_rows_list, num_cols_list, num_clusters_list, num_splits_list]
  for num_rows, num_cols, num_clusters, num_splits \
      in itertools.product(*take_product_of):
    this_base_str = base_str % (num_rows, num_cols, num_clusters, num_splits)
    print this_base_str
  
new_contents: import itertools
  
  
  n_steps = 10
  #
  base_str = ' '.join([
    'python runtime_scripting.py',
    '--num_rows %s',
    '--num_cols %s',
    '--num_clusters %s',
    '--num_splits %s',
    '--n_steps %s' % n_steps,
    '-do_remote >>out 2>>err &',
    ])
  
  num_rows_list = [100, 400, 1000, 4000, 10000]
  num_cols_list = [4, 16, 32]
  num_clusters_list = [10, 20, 50]
  num_splits_list = [1, 2, 4]
  take_product_of = [num_rows_list, num_cols_list, num_clusters_list, num_splits_list]
  for num_rows, num_cols, num_clusters, num_splits \
      in itertools.product(*take_product_of):
    this_base_str = base_str % (num_rows, num_cols, num_clusters, num_splits)
    print this_base_str
  
subject: increase scale of experiments