Xgrid is Apple's distributed job processing framework, which is used to good effect to speed up Xcode compilation.
Resources
- Parallel graphics rendering in POVray, similar page
- Distributed Tiger - Xgrid comes of age - a full tutorial, using the Server Admin Tools to set up job management.
- PyXG - a Python interface to Xgrid. Phear.
- Gridstuffer, a job management utility.