cloud

Best method for running distributed processing on Mac OSX

Hi, I am currently attempting to run a rather CPU intensive application for a research project on a computer running OSX 10.4. There is no way that even a fast MacPro could handle this amount of processing. I'm fairly new to the concept of distributed processing, but it seems to me that I have two options: 1) try to set up a cluster of...

Cloud OS used by google,salesforce etc

Hi I recently heard about Windows Azure which is an Operating system for the data centers. Is there specific OSs used by google, salesforce for they own clouds. Can I find some papers that go through internals of these OSs please. ...