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Latest revision as of 08:09, 16 February 2010

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

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  • 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

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  • 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.