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Apple Releases Xgrid Technology Preview 2

Posted by pudge on from the super-size-my-computational-ability dept.

dark_lotus writes "Apple has announced the availability of Xgrid Technology Preview 2. This version improves on Xgrid's breakthrough ease-of-use by adding the most requested features, including an 'xgrid' command-line utility, support for MPI jobs, and a comprehensive Xgrid User's Guide, as well as numerous bug fixes. Groovy!"

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  1. Re:Will come in handy in the graphics world by Quarters · · Score: 5, Informative
    Imagine being able to use a program like Maya then when everyone goes home at night, use all their workstations to help process a render job.

    That's been doable in 3ds Max for almost eight years now. The same for Lightwave, even back to the days when it was Amiga only. The software license for 3ds Max allows you to install it in a render-only mode on an unlimited # of machines. One machine acts as the queue manager and people can submit jobs all day long for submission to the renderfarm. The queue manager can maintain a time/date access list for individual machines and add/remove them from the pool as necessary.