Joining two pc together

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I got a bit of spare time on my hands and 2 old pcs that i brought for
comic relief. they both are the same. 300mhz with 128MB RAM. I was
wondering would it be possible to join the motherboardds together so
that the main components of the boards ie: processors, RAM, VRAM were
shared.
 
naza said:
I got a bit of spare time on my hands and 2 old pcs that i brought
for comic relief. they both are the same. 300mhz with 128MB RAM. I
was wondering would it be possible to join the motherboardds
together so that the main components of the boards ie: processors,
RAM, VRAM were shared.
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No.
 
naza said:
I got a bit of spare time on my hands and 2 old pcs that i brought for
comic relief. they both are the same. 300mhz with 128MB RAM. I was
wondering would it be possible to join the motherboardds together so
that the main components of the boards ie: processors, RAM, VRAM were
shared.
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though you cannot electrically join them, two or more machines may work
together in a cluster


http://www.ram.org/computing/linux/linux_cluster.html


that should keep you busy for a year or so :)
 
Theoretically you can put one SCSI board in each, declared with different
IDs, an SCSI cable between them, hard disks, SCSi peripherals, ...
They will share the peripherals but I don't know if they'll see together.
This is an old project I aborted last year.
I'd be pleased to read the gurus about it ...
 
Ok. I wont try electrically joining them together but i am interested
in creating a cluster. Do you know hwere i can get inofmration about
this and any ideas on how to get it working on the windows enviroment,
as i believe most of the software is for linux.
 
I have not seen computers work together in the manner you are suggesting.
The closest thing I have seen is grid computing, similar to what seti at
home did, each computer is given a task to do then the results are
collected.

I have never seen where two independent pc's are connected in some fashion
such that computing tasks are coordinated and load balanced automatically by
the OS's.

-g
 
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