Grid MP provides
job scheduling with prioritization, user security restrictions, selective application exclusion, user-activity detection, and time-of-day execution controls. Grid MP can be used to manage computational
Devices consisting of corporate desktop PCs, departmental servers, or dedicated cluster nodes. Computational
Devices can be arranged into
Device Groups for organizational, security, and administrative control. Grid MP has been demonstrated as being capable of managing grids of large numbers of nodes during its use in the infrastructure of the
grid.org and
World Community Grid projects (the World Community Grid project migrated to the
open-source Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing software in 2007 ). Despite its ability to "scale seamlessly to hundreds of thousands of device nodes" it is also suitable for smaller clusters of enterprise servers or workstations.
MGSI MP Grid Services Interface, or simply
MGSI, offers a
web service API (via
SOAP and
XML-RPC protocols over
HTTP). although commonly
C++,
Java,
Perl, and
PHP are used.
Management Console A web-based
MP Management Console, or simply
MPMC, provides administrators with a simplified and easy-to-use interface to monitor system activity, control security settings, and manage system objects. •
Microsoft Windows on
x86 •
Linux on
x86,
IA-64,
x86-64 •
Solaris on
SPARC •
AIX on
PowerPC •
Mac OS X on
PowerPC and
x86 •
HP-UX on
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