Apple’s Xgrid system comes delivered with OSX and is a simple way of getting into Distributed Computing. Its simplicity allows users to be able to quickly turn on the Grid system and quickly get to submit jobs. However, a layer of complexity can exist if more is required. Such as greater security, advance job tracing, as well MPI integration using OpenMPI.

Xgrid is currently in its first revision.

Note: OSX Server is required to be able to run the Xgrid controller daemon. However, it is also possible to run it on a OSX Client as the controller binaries are also available there. That said, i have yet to find out how to configure the controller daemon on a OSX Client easily.

Apple Xgrid Guide – The original guide posted in TWiki

Xgrid Benchmarks – The Xgrid benchmarks

Java Xgrid agent – Java xgrid agent

Simple Xgrid2 scripts – for ART and batch processing

XgridLite – XgridLite Image file

Xgrid Maya integration scripts – Zip file

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