ACM Home Page
Please provide us with feedback. Feedback
Building computational grids with apple's Xgrid middleware
Full text PdfPdf (247 KB)
Source ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 167 archive
Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian workshops on Grid computing and e-research - Volume 54 table of contents
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Pages: 47 - 54  
Year of Publication: 2006
ISBN ~ ISSN:1445-1336 , 1-920-68236-8
Author
Baden Hughes  Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Publisher
Australian Computer Society, Inc.  Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia
Bibliometrics
Downloads (6 Weeks): 2,   Downloads (12 Months): 112,   Citation Count: 0
Additional Information:

abstract   references   index terms   collaborative colleagues  

Tools and Actions: Review this Article  
Save this Article to a Binder    Display Formats: BibTex  EndNote ACM Ref   

ABSTRACT

Apple's release of the Xgrid framework for distributed computing introduces a new technology solution for loosely coupled distributed computation. In this paper systematically describe, compare and evaluate the Apple native Xgrid solution and a range of third party components which can be substituted for the native versions. This description and evaluation is grounded in practical experience of deploying a small scale, internationally distributed, heterogenous computational infrastructure based on the Xgrid framework.


REFERENCES

Note: OCR errors may be found in this Reference List extracted from the full text article. ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references.

 
1
Apple Computer Inc, 2005a. Property List Format. http://developer.apple. com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ ManPages/man5/plist.5.html Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
2
Apple Computer Inc, 2005b. XgridFoundation Reference. http://developer.apple.com/ documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ XgridDeveloper/index.html Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
3
Apple Computer Inc, 2005. Xgrid. http://www. apple.com/macosx/features/xgrid/ Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
4
Apple Computer Inc, 2005. Mac OS X Server Xgrid Administration Guide. http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/ Xgrid_Admin_v10.4.pdf Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
5
Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Tianchi Ma, and Rajkumar Buyya, 2005. An Integration of Global and Enterprise Grid Computing: Gridbus Broker and Xgrid Perspective. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing. Lecture Notes on Computer Science XXXX. Springer-Verlag. pp. XX-YY.
 
6
Robert Brower, 2005. Base64 Encode/Decode Utility. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ base64 Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
7
Ed Baskerville, 2005. XgridLite. http: //edbaskerville.com/software/xgridlite/ Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
8
Huston Franklin, 2005. BeepCore-Java. http:// sourceforge.net/projects/beepcore-java Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
9
Steven Bird and Edward Loper, 2004. NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit. Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Demonstration Session. Association for Computational Linguistics. pp. 214-217.
 
10
 
11
Curtis Campbell, 2005. XgridAgent-Java. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ unix_open_source/xgridagentforjava.html Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
12
Daniel Cote, 2004. XgridAgent for Unix Architectures. http://www.novajo.ca/xgridagent/ Last Visited 21 September 2005.
 
13
David Graff, 2003. English Gigaword. Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania. LDC2003T05.
 
14
Brian Granger, 2005. PyXG. http://hammonds. scu.edu/~classes/pyxg.html Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
15
Baden Hughes, James Curran, James Haggerty, Saritha Manickam and Joel Nothman, 2005. A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Parse Annotation Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005. Australasian Language Technology Association. pp. XX-YY.
 
16
Arthur van Hoff and Rick Blair, 2005. JmDNS. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ jmdns/ Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
17
Drew McCormack, 2005. Distributed Tiger: Xgrid comes of Age. http: //www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/ 08/23/xgrid.html Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
18
Drew McCormack, 2005. Sweetening Your Xgrid with Cocoa. http://www.macdevcenter.com/ pub/a/mac/2005/09/13/xgrid.html Last visited 21 September 2005.
 
19
Charles Parnot, 2005. GridStuffer. http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/ xgrid-stanford/html/goodies/ GridStuffer-info.html Last visited 21 September 2005.
20