Reading Assignment

• Xgrid: The simple solution for distributed computing. Xgrid technology brief. Retrieved from: http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Xgrid_TB_v10.4.pdf on 3/27/07.

Related Web Sites

Mac OS Server - Xgrid: Apple's overview of Xgrid.

GridStuffer: The GridStuffer page from Xgrid@Stanford



BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO: An introduction to bash shell scripting with numerous examples.

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide: Some more advanced topics and examples of bash shell scripting.

Simple Introduction to Unix: A very brief reference for the standard Unix command line tools that can be used in scripts.



A Brief Introduction to Regular Expressions: A good introduction to regular expressions with lots of examples.

Regular Expressions Summary: A short summary of regular expression constructs in java.



Gnuplot 4.0 Tutorial: A good overview of the basic Gnuplot commands.

Sample Code

• dlife.zip: An update to the dlife package that contains the dlife.tools.stat package for computing some statistics.
  
  
• MaxOnes.zip: The full directory structure from the in class example of Xgrid use. Contains all of programs and scripts that were used. You can try this example by downloading and extracting this zip.