XGrid- What's all the buzz about?

I'm sorry, I have nothing to add to this thread, I just want to subscribe to it to find out what answer you get. I am also really interested in this.

 

Apple took this out of Tiger client, Tiger server is needed to set up the grid I believe.

Distributed computing is built into DVD SP 4 though for encoding video.

 

My friend and I tried the demo. Couldn't figure out anything to supercompute, though.

 

Here is what I found in looking my Tiger's help server:

and somewhere in the end it says:

 

I'm also interested in seeing what happens to Xgrid, a lot of people have more then one machine in their houses now so it would be nice to see that resource used, especially for things like media encoding

Supercomputing for the rest of us

 

xgrid still exists in the Tiger client:

Code:

[null:~] yellow% sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.4.1
BuildVersion:   8B15
[null:~] yellow% locate xgrid
/Developer/Examples/Xgrid/GridSample/MPI/xgridmpiboot
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.xgrid.agent.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.xgrid.controller.plist
/private/etc/xgrid
/private/etc/xgrid/agent
/private/etc/xgrid/agent/com.apple.xgrid.agent.plist.default
/private/etc/xgrid/controller
/private/etc/xgrid/controller/com.apple.xgrid.controller.plist.default
/private/var/xgrid
/private/var/xgrid/agent
/private/var/xgrid/agent/cookies
/private/var/xgrid/controller
/private/var/xgrid/controller/blobs
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xgridagentd.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xgridcontrollerd.plist
/usr/bin/xgrid
/usr/libexec/xgrid
/usr/libexec/xgrid/DatasetTool
/usr/libexec/xgrid/execuid
/usr/libexec/xgrid/IdleTool
/usr/libexec/xgrid/xgridagentd
/usr/libexec/xgrid/xgridagenthelper
/usr/libexec/xgrid/xgridcontrollerd
/usr/sbin/xgridctl
/usr/share/man/man1/xgrid.1
/usr/share/man/man8/xgridctl.8

I think most of it is, if you don't have anything super-processor-intensive (something that takes multiple days to compile/render/whatever), you wouldn't have any need for xgrid. Install the Dev tools, look at the examples, read the man pages..

 

Who knows. Sounds like you should get started soon though, it's a good idea.

Maybe you could also subscribe to the Apple Xgrid users mailing list, as well.

 

I'm not so sure about that. If you Google, you will find some XGrid plug-ins. I think what you're missing is that most people don't have multiple Macs, and have no need for XGrid. Those that need it recognize this and either find the plug-ins they need, create them if they don't exist, or contract someone to do it for them.

Hell, most Mac users don't know anything about the CLI, and don't want to.

 

ah, I know the feeling.
However, there is a solution!

Click 'thread tools' in the blue ruler on top of the thread. You'll conveniently find a 'Subscribe to this thread' link.

Cheers

 

I have a very similar need. I've been wanting to share iDVD encoding across multiple Macs ever since I've heard about Xgrid. Now DVD Studio Pro has this feature (distributed encoding). I'm waiting for some brilliant developer to release Xgrid plugins for iMovie and iDVD. I'd love to cut my DVD encoding time down.

And it looks like we don't even need OS X Server, check out:
http://www.edbaskerville.com/software/xgridlite/

 

Ahh, I never knew that.

Thank you

 

sounds pretty cool, except i would have no use for it, or any idea of how to do so
what's next though, iGrid--supercomputing for the rest of us?

 

I see you want to stick to your guns. Well, good luck with it.