[Macpartners] Xgrid@MIT

[Adam Kocoloski]

Hi Macpartners,

I'd like to draw your attention to an Apple-related research effort  
underway here at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science.  Over the past  
year or so we've been putting together an Xgrid cluster and using it  
for a variety of high-energy and nuclear physics calculations.  These  
days we have about 30 fast PowerPC and Intel machines from LNS and  
the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.  Xgrid is pretty  
unsophisticated compared to other batch systems like Condor or SGE,  
but it has the great advantage of bring preinstalled on new Macs so  
adding new machines to the cluster is a cinch.

We've got a website up and running if you'd like to get involved or  
just keep tabs on the project.  There's even a little Dashboard  
widget tachometer with real-time cluster stats:

http://deltag5.lns.mit.edu/xgrid/

If you've never heard of Xgrid before, here's a link to Apple's page  
about it:

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/xgrid.html

Regards, Adam
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Adam Kocoloski
Dept. of Physics, MIT
26-402E
617.258.5437