Apple Installing Your Shake 4 Software - Manual (Page 8)

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Apple Qmaster Installation Components
Within the Customize dialog in the Apple Qmaster installer are two separate
installation components for Apple Qmaster, each designed for a different part of a
Apple Qmaster system.
Installation
Component
Where to Install It Applications and Utilities Installed
Apple Qmaster
Applications On client computers: Any computer
from which you use Shake Qmaster
to submit processing jobs.
On administrator computers: Any
computer you use to create and
administer Shake Qmaster clusters. It
must be on the same network as the
clusters.
• Apple Qmaster 2 (the interface for
submitting jobs for distributed
processing)
• Apple Qadministrator
• Batch Monitor utility
Apple Qmaster
Services On cluster computers:
• service nodes: The computers that
perform the actual processing of
jobs.
• cluster controller computers: The
computer that acts as the manager
of a cluster. It divides up tasks,
determines which service nodes to
send work to, and then distributes
the work.
There is only one cluster controller
per cluster.
• Apple Qmaster 2 pane in System
Preferences