Xgrid systems, please share experience

I am interested and learning about xgrid systems, does anyone have such a system setup in their home? If so can you please elaborate on the infrastructure/setup, how many computers, how well it works, what apps utilize it, etc...
Anyhting and everything so I can learn about the xgrid system
ALSO, I want to setup a system for FCP or other processor heavy apps such that my powerbook is the master with a mac mini, imac, and windows pcs (if possible) on the network as well, via a wireless G... is this possible or is wireless G to slow (incomparison to gigabit ethernet) or to little of computers to notice anything?
Thank you for any and all info!
TM

Have been playing around with Report Designer and I found it useful for basic formatting but not for the one's you had mentioned in your post.
SAPs suggests you do all the data manipulation in the Query Designer or Infocube and use Report Designer for just formatting the data. In the past we had issues where we could not certain calculation in query designer and have used Crystal Reports along with BI data for similar kind of things which you had mentioned in your post (using sub reports and report level data manipulation). Report Designer unfortunately does not provide any of these functionalities.
I have seen comments from SAP saying Report Designer will be developed further, not sure of any specific functionality whichis coming in. I think it is SAPs first step in the formatted reporting area and may be in the future we will have a tool which can handle much more complex scenarios!
Thanks.

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