Xgrid

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Image:Xgrid Admin.png In computers, Xgrid is software developed by Apple's Advanced Computation Group that allows a group of networked computers to engage in distributed computing. The purpose of Xgrid is to offer scientists an easy-to-implement method of exploiting previously underused computational power at a low cost: it acts as a job scheduler, distributing jobs to be executed on available computers. With the inclusion of the XGrid agent in Tiger, Apple increased its potential usage greatly: however, their decision to only allow controller access to Mac OS X Server machines has limited the efforts by the computer community to embrace the platform. Those that have succeeded in spite of this include Xgrid@Stanford and BLAST.