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Revision as of 22:03, 3 March 2010
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This tutorial is intended for running distributed programs on an 8-core MacPro that is setup as an XGrid Controller at Smith College. Most of the steps presented here should work on other Apple grids, except for the specific details of login and host addresses. Another document details how to access the 88-processor XGrid in the Science Center at Smith College. This document is the second part of a tutorial on the XGrid and follows the Monte Carlo tutorial. Make sure you go through this tutorial first. |
Setup
The main setup is shown below
See the Project 2 page for more information on accessing the server of wikipedia pages.
In summary, any computer can issue http requests to the server at the Url associated with the wiki page server and append ?Count=nnnn at the end to get a list of nnnn Ids, or ?Id=nnnn to get the contents of the page with the given Id.
