XGrid on a Mac

If you have a Mac and Want to Monitor your Distributed Programs

The material presented here is not necessary to run XGrid program from a Mac platform, but it permits one to monitor the progress and potentially stuck programs in the grid. One can monitor the grid from a GUI, and observe the parallel execution of several copies of a distributed program.

Install Apple Admin Tool

• If you do not have a Server folder in the Applications folder, and you don't have an XGrid Admin application in the Server folder, then download the admin, otherwise skip to the next step.
• Download and install package for Mac OS X 10.6 from Apple

• Install
• Launch

Connecting to the XGridMac server

• Locate the Server folder in your applications, and in it the XGrid icon
• Open it
• Click + to add a new a new controller.
• Enter xgridmac.xxxxxx.xxx and the password given to you in class.
• Observe that you should have access to a collection of Macs around the building
• As you submit jobs, you should see the GUI react and show you the jobs running, and the amount of GHz being used.