Can Aperture be used in XGRID?

Anyone know if there's a way to get Aperture to work in XGRID?
Aperture runs fine on my MacBook Pro, but I have two identical MacBook Pro's and was wondering if there's a way to get the lazy MBP to do some work.

PS - In case you think my above post sounds implausible, here's an article from O'Reilly (the book publishers) that talks about using iMovie with a laptop and XGRID.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/11/xgrid_pt1.html

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    Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

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    Message was edited by: SierraDragon

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