[sharing cpus] -

Posted by: inatey

it is possible to network 2 pc so that they share cpu power or ram or video proceseing power?? if be able to run of the 1 screen??

Posted by: mikesgroovin

In a simple answer, no.
You're not going to be able to do this given a commercial operating system from Microsoft...thats for sure. This kind of operation isn't built to "share" over a network.

-Mike

Posted by: ekÆsine

almost, there is a PCI expansion card you can buy that allows 2 people to share the same computer using another set of keyboard, mouse, monitor. it behaves as if it were 2 separate computers. i saw this product in a [url]www.tigerdirect.com[/url] sales catalog.

this is the only way that i am aware of. there is no way to do this through networking exactly the way you describe it. the networking speed would have to be fast enough to display moving video , memory, hard disk, ect. the closest thing is something called thin client or fat client, not what you want.

Posted by: Inaris

What about clustering? Using multiple machines to act as one unit. Just have to run the right OS to do it though... This might be closer to what he is looking for... Although clustering requires 3 PCs to start. 1 is the control unit that the other 2 send and recieve requests to and from. But they can be grown to encompass many machines. not sure there is even a limit...

Posted by: mikesgroovin

Clustering will not work with 2 PCs......

Posted by: Inaris

I know that, but I think this is what he is looking for... Something like this anyway...

Posted by: mikesgroovin

Sorry, didn't read the latter part of the above post where you said it wouldn't work.

-Mike

Posted by: Harold III

mosix? for linux

Posted by: inatey

yes clustering!! that is what i mean!! i have a 3rd pc but it is a p2... would it still work?? how would i go about doing it?

Posted by: mikesgroovin

Ok, I can walk you through this and/or point you to a directional site. But what operating systems are you using?

-Mike

Posted by: inatey

this are all the stats of the top of my head...

1) desktop pc
win xp home
p4 2ghz oc at 2.2
256 mg ram
20 gig hdd
64 meg gf4

2) sony vaio laptop
win xp pro
p3 1.15 ghz
256 mg ram
30 gig hdd
32 mg intel built in vidio card

2) desktop pc
win 98
p2 266 mhz (i think)
64 mg ram
4 gig disk
video not sure

Posted by: Inaris

Time to switch to Linux for this... Good Luck.

Posted by: inatey

yo mike u gona tell me what i need to do?

Posted by: Inaris

Check out these sites. From what i know, you can only do functional clucsters with Linux. The Xp Clustering is more of a Load balancing thing. Unless that is what you are looking for...
[url]http://www.beowulf.org[/url]
[url]http://www.gridcomputing.com[/url]

Good Luck

Posted by: inatey

kk i will have a look

Posted by: inatey

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Inaris [/i]
[B]Check out these sites. From what i know, you can only do functional clucsters with Linux. The Xp Clustering is more of a Load balancing thing. Unless that is what you are looking for...
[url]http://www.beowulf.org[/url]
[url]http://www.gridcomputing.com[/url]

Good Luck [/B][/QUOTE]

hold on what is the diff between load balanceing and clustering?

Posted by: ADZ

My mate was telling me about what i thought was a 'BayWolf' cluster. So its Beowulf eh? It intrigues me! Is it possibler to do with Fedora?

Posted by: Inaris

Here is a good FAQ on the topic of Beowulfs. I'm not sure on what disto they can be run from, but if you look around, there is a ton of info on the topic.
[url]http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/beowulf-faq.txt[/url]
Another good article
[url]http://www.zdnetindia.com/biztech/services/whitepapers/stories/19539.html[/url]
This one covers most of it...
[url]http://www.zdnetindia.com/biztech/services/whitepapers/stories/19538.html[/url]

Load-balancing is basically a multipoint-failover system, meant for fault-tolerance and failure-avoidance, and is not a computational cluster (ie Parallel Processing). For that, you need Unix, or a Unix-like platform, like Linux.
Hope that helps...

Posted by: inatey

wow that just made it worse... jk whitch one can i do with out linux?

Posted by: Inaris

There is a windows "clustering" only available through XP Pro and 2003 server I believe. if that is what you are asking. It is a load balance type cluster, so you don't get the process control like with Beowulfs.

Posted by: inatey

ok then to do a beowulf what distro of linux do i need?