A standardised approach for effective management of large numbers of desktops, devices, servers, applications and LAN’s from one centralised point.

In this first of two articles exploring Xgrid, Drew McCormack provides a little background information, then moves to installation, and finishes off with a command-line script for distributing compilation using Xgrid.

An Open-Source project that provides software to distribute work over many computers in a network. The machines are only used during idle-time.

Research project developing middleware designed to support data select, indexing, and transfer operations on large scientific datasets in a grid or clustered computing environment.

Masters thesis by Thomas Keane B.Sc.

In Part 1, Drew McCormack showed how to install and start using Xgrid. Now in Part 2, he covers integration with Cocoa.

The next step to distributed computer systems, A complete Java framework for implementing MultiNodal processor farms. There is a demo, but the full implementation is for sale.

Build a supercomputer using wasted CPU cycles of home and office computers. (A fledgling project looking for a sponsor and participants.)

Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP.