{"title":"Utilization of a local grid of Mac OS X-based computers using Xgrid","authors":"D. Kramer, M. MacInnis","doi":"10.1109/HPDC.2004.40","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Xgrid Technical Preview 2 is a distributed computing software technology from Apple Computer, Inc. Xgrid leverages the UNIX-based capabilities of Mac OS X to enable the rapid aggregation of Macintosh systems into a simple yet powerful computational grid which can run a wide range of standard and custom solutions with minimal code changes. To demonstrate the technology, the software is run on a networked rack of Xserve G5 servers and a PowerBook G4 laptop. The demonstration shows how Xgrid is utilized to distribute long-running batch and parallel jobs to a local grid of Mac OS X-based computers.","PeriodicalId":446429,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. 13th IEEE International Symposium on High performance Distributed Computing, 2004.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"22","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings. 13th IEEE International Symposium on High performance Distributed Computing, 2004.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPDC.2004.40","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Xgrid Technical Preview 2 is a distributed computing software technology from Apple Computer, Inc. Xgrid leverages the UNIX-based capabilities of Mac OS X to enable the rapid aggregation of Macintosh systems into a simple yet powerful computational grid which can run a wide range of standard and custom solutions with minimal code changes. To demonstrate the technology, the software is run on a networked rack of Xserve G5 servers and a PowerBook G4 laptop. The demonstration shows how Xgrid is utilized to distribute long-running batch and parallel jobs to a local grid of Mac OS X-based computers.
Xgrid技术预览2是苹果公司开发的分布式计算软件技术。Xgrid利用Mac OS X基于unix的功能,使Macintosh系统能够快速聚合到一个简单而强大的计算网格中,该网格可以运行范围广泛的标准和自定义解决方案,只需进行最小的代码更改。为了演示这项技术,软件在Xserve G5服务器和PowerBook G4笔记本电脑的网络机架上运行。该演示展示了如何利用Xgrid将长时间运行的批处理和并行作业分发到基于Mac OS x的计算机的本地网格。