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Resources and solutions
The Apple X-serve website has full details of the machines. These can be ordered as a prebuilt workgroup cluster or you can configure your own by buying a head node and the desired number of cluster nodes. You may then need to add an Xserve Raid for data storage and Myrinet or Infiniband for high speed communication.
The Apple Science website has a selection of compute cluster resources
There is also
GridMathematica at: http://www.wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/index.html (You might also be interested in Mathlinkosax makes it easy to integrate Mathematica with any AppleScript enabled application http://www.unisoftwareplus.com/products/mathlinkosax/
Gridengine: http://gridengine.sunsource.net
Portable Batch System http://www.openpbs.org/
Pooch http://www.daugerresearch.com/pooch/whatis.html
Torque: http://www.clusterresources.com/products/torque/
Terrasoftsolutions http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/
Xgrid http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/
HPC on MacOSX http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
A list of clusters I've heard about
4800 processors - "MareNostrum" Barcelona Supercomputer Center
3072 processors - US Army's "MACH 5" used by the Army and NASA for hypersonic flight research
2200 processors - VA Tech's "System X" aka "Big Mac" used for academic research
2000 processors - http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2005/02/i_saw_a_400_g5_.html seismic imaging
1280 processors - U. of Illinois' "Turing Cluster" used for a range of academic research and replacing a Dell/HP Linux cluster
1344 processors - French CGG cluster for oil prospecting
512 processors - U. Maine's "Baby MACH 5" used for development MACH 5
448 processors - Bowie State "Xseed"
322 processors - Glotzer group U. Mich soft matter simulation
260 processors - Univ of York Neuroimaging Centre
256 processors - UCLA's "Dawson" used for plasma physics research
250 processors - U. Pitt's Human Genetics cluster
200 processors - GeoCenter cluster used for seismic data processing
86 processors - UNC's cluster used for proteomics research
76 processors - UC Davis's cluster used for Genome Center research
72 processors - UC Santa Cruz's cluster used for a range of academic research
66 processors - OSC-Springfield bioinformatics
64 processors - Australian Defence Force's "Checkmate" used for command and control simulations
52 processors - Univ Hamburg used for astrophysics research
48 processors - Louisiana State's "Nemeaux" with Xgrid, used for 3D animation, audio, and scientific computing
42 processors - Xblast TAMU bioinformatics
24 processors - Stanford/SLAC department: Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics
16 processors - Terrasoftsolutions running Linux, available online for testing