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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. Xgrid for folding@home and Photoshop? by Selecter · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The second Xgrid came out, I wanted to know how it could be used for Folding@Home and the RC-5 challenge and so on. Of course Apple has a story up now about Folding@Home and how good the G5 is at it, which is very very good but still not the best. I wrote Vijay Pande and he said they are watching it closely and when it matures they would exploit it for Folding@Home.

    When you can use xgrid and enable any type of grid enabled program that might use Rendevous and some simple plug in of some kind to use however many Macs there are on a given network to crunch away at something is the day Apple will start making serious inroads again. Imagine a Photoshop Mac pool at a Ad agency using Xgrid, or the same thing at the movie making place with Final Cut Pro 5 or whatever.

    I really do like the directions that Apple is going in these days. Stock market does not seem to mind either. :)