Data Spring Cleaning

Last month, I purchased a new Apple MacBook Pro to replace my venerable 2001 Titanium PowerBook. My PowerBook has served me well over the years, but unfortunately, it has been dropped one too many times. I'm actually suprised that it has lasted five years of heavy use. This weekend, I started the process of moving the data on my PowerBook to the new MacBook Pro, and it's been a very time-consuming process. Given that the systems have different processor architectures, I can't just move the contents of the entire drive. So I have to manually decide what goes and what doesn't. I've been a bit of pack-rat lately - my home directory is 25G just by itself, and that's after doing some serious cleanup.

Has anyone looked at Apple's Xgrid software? It appears that it is a basic job scheduler, a simplified form of lsf. From the API documentation (what little there is of it), it doesn't appear that Xgrid provides any job communication capabilities. I'm assuming that MPI is still required. Still, it would be really fun to have a whole rack of Xserve's to try it out on.