What is xgrid agent

Because the Xgrid agent software is preinstalled with Mac OS X Leopard or later systems and is available for previous versions of the operating system, client systems are ready to be activated to turn their idle processors into a productive computing system cluster. This chapter describes how Xgrid works, what's involved in planning computational grid deployment, how it's Skip to main content.

Start your free trial. Chapter Configure the agent using the Sharing Pane of System Preferences. See Managing Xgrid Agents. However, on the desktop version use the XgridLite open source software to:. See Managing an Xgrid Controller. Provides a summary of the activity of the grid.

Download it for free from Apple's website. For multiple task jobs, you can use the following scripts to create and send batch files to the controller, and to retrive the results:. Notice that the xgrid command line tool does not support "globbing" multiple files as argument e. For that purpose I wrote the above scripts.

To generate and submit a batch file with jobs that call a program prog with command line argument arg on several files:. To retrieve the results by passing the ID files generated by xg-batch.

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