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A holistic approach to high-performance computing: xgrid experience

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Pegah, Mahmoud Przybyla, David Miller, Karissa
Abstract	The Ringling School of Art and Design is a fully accredited four-year college of visual arts and design. With a student to computer ratio of better than 2-to-1, the Ringling School has achieved national recognition for its large-scale integration of technology into collegiate visual art and design education. We have found that Mac OS X is the best operating system to train future artists and designers. Moreover, we can now buy Macs to run high-end graphics, nonlinear video editing, animation, multimedia, web production, and digital video applications rather than expensive UNIX workstations. As visual artists cross from paint on canvas to creating in the digital realm, the demand for a high-performance computing environment grows. In our public computer laboratories, students use the computers most often during the workday; at night and on weekends the computers see only light use. In order to harness the lost processing time for tasks such as video rendering, we are testing Xgrid, a suite of Mac OS X applications recently developed by Apple for parallel and distributed high-performance computing. As with any new technology deployment, IT managers need to consider a number of factors as they assess, plan, and implement Xgrid. Therefore, we would like to share valuable information we learned from our implementation of an Xgrid environment with our colleagues. In our report, we will address issues such as assessing the needs for grid computing, potential applications, management tools, security, authentication, integration into existing infrastructure, application support, user training, and user support. Furthermore, we will discuss the issues that arose and the lessons learned during and after the implementation process.
Starting Page	119
Ending Page	124
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581138695
DOI	10.1145/1027802.1027832
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2004-10-10
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Macintosh os x High-performance computing Rendering Xgrid Cluster Grid computing Rendezvous
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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