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Apple previews Xgrid technology for clustering

updated 04:05 pm EST, Tue January 6, 2004

Xgrid for clustering


, a computational clustering technology from Apple's Advanced Computation Group (ACG). Xgrid creates a grid-enabled "virtual" IT environment that takes advantage of unused computing capacity to run batch and workload processing: "Xgrid makes it easy to turn your Mac cluster into a supercomputer. The new Xgrid software agents use Apple's Rendezvous networking technology to automatically discover, connect and manage tasks across available systems in a Mac cluster." A free beta is available now.


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    01/06, 08:11pm | report spam | Reply |

    !!!!!

    holy jesas on a shakin pogostick! Now this is royal humongous news!
    A shame that so many IT managers are so M$ biased. :(

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    01/06, 09:03pm | report spam | Reply |

    oh really?

    Does MS have useful grid and clustering software? I don't know - I'm more in the unix/linux world. I'd like to see the beta of Xgrid - where is it?

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    01/06, 10:47pm | report spam | Reply |

    downloadable preview

    it's available at http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/ (look for the download link). Looks very cool. It's based on Zilla from NeXTSTEP, and it seems pretty easy to develop plugins for an application to distribute easily parallelizable tasks.

    And yeah, Microsoft has NOTHING like this. Other clustering solutions do exist; I've worked with MOSIX on Linux in the past; configuring it is h***. Not needing a full-time sysadmin to manage your cluster could be considered an advantage (though I'm a sysadmin myself) :)

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