Xgrid is a technology created by Apple Inc. which allows complex computational work to be distributed to many computer systems of differing speeds, makes and models.

Unfortunately, the nature of Xgrid does not allow it to simply start working with any program. Programs must be written to take advantage of its functions.

I’ve compiled a short list of programs I know to be compatible with Xgrid. If you know of any which I am missing, please let me know using the link at the bottom of the page.

Applications

Apple Podcast Producer

Terragen

VisualHub

iSpeak it

Version

All

0.9 or higher

All

3.0 or higher

Notes

Uses Xgrid to distribute large podcast encoding.

Used for distributed rendering.

Batch video conversions. Leopard not supported.

Used to translate text files into audio files.