Bill de h?ra: IM Grid
http://www.dehora.net/journal/2006/11/here_we_go_again_1.html
"5 years from now, Grid services that are not already on Web will be based on instant messaging, and XMPP/Atom/RDF will be the key Grid transfer protocols and formats."
Macworld UK - Rip your iPod video with an Xgrid app
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=14903&RSS=
"Xgrid allows a user to combine the processing power of multiple Macs across a network for batch encoding of video"