http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1427160,00.asp?kc=EWNWS010704DTX1K0000599
By <http://www.eweek.com/author_bio/0,3055,a=2280,00.asp>David Morgenstern
January 6, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO�One new technology somewhat underplayed during CEO Steve
Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote address on Tuesday was
<http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/>Xgrid, Apple's new grid computing
environment. A product of the company's Advanced Computation Group, XGrid
Preview Edition Tuesday was
<ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Tool_Chest/Xgrid1.0.dmg.bin>offered for
download by the company.
The keynote address featured a video describing the experience of the
Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University in Blacksburg, Va. In September, the group configured a cluster
supercomputer with 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s.
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