Simple Grid Protocol

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{{Infobox software

| name = Simple Grid Protocol

| developer = Brendan Kosowski

| released = {{Start date and age|2004|09|23}}

| latest release version = 1.2

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2019|09|05}}

| operating system = Linux & BSD

| language = Steel Bank Common Lisp

| genre = Grid Computing

| license = Permissive software license

| website = {{URL|http://grid.bmk.com.au/}}

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Simple Grid Protocol is a free open source grid computing package. Developed & maintained by Brendan Kosowski, the package includes the protocol & software tools needed to get a computational grid up and running on Linux & BSD.

Coded in SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp), Simple Grid Protocol allows computer programs to utilize the unused CPU resources of other computers on a network or the Internet.

As of version 1.2, Simple Grid Protocol can execute multiple programming threads on multiple computers concurrently. Custom multi-threading functions (utilizing operating system threads) for Linux & BSD allow multi-threading on single-thread SBCL implementations. Originally coded in CLISP, version 1.2 included the change to SBCL coding.

BSD Operating Systems supported include FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD & DragonFly BSD.

An optional XML interface allows any XML capable programming language to send Lisp programs to the grid for execution.