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Xgrid Agent for Unix

Posted by pudge on from the beowulf-strikes-again dept.

mac-diddy writes "Someone on Apple's mailing list for Xgrid, Apple's clustering software, just announced an 'Xgrid agent for Linux and other Unix platforms' available for download. There are still some issues being worked on like large file support, but it does allow you to simply add a Unix node to your existing Xgrid cluster. Just goes to show that when companies embrace open standards and code, the world doesn't fall apart."

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  1. Why another technology by Skaunch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why does mac have to go out and roll-their-own clustering software when it would be a lot more helpful to embrase something like Globus which is being adopted for grid computing world wide.

    It would fit right in as it can run on top of JBoss and prefers a *nix environment.

    Either that or OpenMosix... but not another new one.