In an effort to make CocoaRadio more participatory, I'm now blogging about the upcoming shows in advance of recording to allow for listener questions to be posted. Thanks for the ideas guys.
To kick off this approach, I am announcing an upcoming show featuring Xgrid@Stanford and Charles Parnot.
At Stanford, Charles oversees the world's largest Xgrid cluster. He will be on CocoaRadio to discuss Xgrid, Cocoa, his GridStuffer application, and to answer questions you post here as comments.
The project Xgrid@Stanford is run by Brian Kobilka's lab, in the Molecular and Cellular Physiology department, Stanford University.
For an in-depth introduction to Xgrid, read Drew McCormack's article at MacDevCenter: "Distributed Tiger: Xgrid Comes of Age" (2 parts). Drew is also the co-author of Beginning Mac OS X Programming.
Also, joining this show will be Alex and Tom, (bios) who are PhD students in Holland and serious Mac users in an academic environment. They produce the Xgrid@Stanford dashboard widget. Check out their Mac oriented website which offers lots of information and links about Xgrid.
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I'm curious to know if the Stanford Xgrid guys have explored any means of integrating Xgrid with any other grid middleware stacks out there, such as those from EGEE (gLite), LCG, Open Science Grid, Teragrid or OMII?
Posted by: Fraser Speirs | 22 September 2005 at 02:26 AM
I'd like to know whether anybody has seriously considered using non-Apple Unix xgrid agents (eg http://www.novajo.ca/xgridagent/) as extra work machines, and what problems they faced [obviously filesystem layout; missing/incompatible binaries]. What about cross platform approaches -- Java, mono, Perl et al ??
Posted by: Grant Wilson | 30 September 2005 at 06:57 PM
1. How has the program been received both on campus and around the country?
2. What are the future plans for the program?
Posted by: Justin Williams | 18 October 2005 at 01:51 PM