Originally Posted by tlarkin

I just recently came back from some Leopard Server training and I was chatting with one of the engineers from Apple, and they mentioned a very cool story to me. There was a poor school district in KY, and they purchased a lot of Apple computers for education, and now they are splitting the costs with the University of Kentucky. They are using XGRID, which is a distributed computing application. When the kids from the elementary school go home at night, the University takes over their computers remotely via XGRID and uses them to distribute jobs and processes data with their computers. I thought that was pretty cool.