XGrid

This is the Main Portal for a set of Wiki pages for the sharing information about the XGrid systems, an integral part of the Screms Grant directed by Ruth Haas.

• Participants

• Projects

• Tutorials for programming XGrid projects
• Programming Examples, Setup, and References

• What's an XGrid system?
  • A Video presentation of the XGrid (click on movie reel icon to start).
  • A very good overview of the XGrid from macdevcenter.com

• Papers
  • Processing Wikipedia Dumps: A Case-Study comparing the XGrid and MapReduce Approaches, D. Thiebaut, Yang Li, Diana Jaunzeikare, Alexandra Cheng, Ellysha Raelen Recto, Gillian Riggs, Xia Ting Zhao, Tonje Stolpestad, and Cam Le T Nguyen, in proceedings of 1st Int'l Conf. On Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2011), Noordwijkerhout, NL, May 2011.
  • XGrid and R: Parallel Distributed processing using heterogeneous groups of Apple Computers, N. Horing, S. Anoke, Y Zhao, and R Jaeger, The R Journal, Aug. 2011.

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• Wiki Help
  • A quick tutorial on the basic elements of a wiki.
  • Help editing wiki pages.
  • Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
  • MediaWiki FAQ