Computer Clustering

[Captinjigglesworth]

Hello all, 

I have 6 computers with exact same specs and i was wondering how i could put them to make a powerful computer and using all of the resources at once. I considered using HTCondor. is that a good option

 

Thanks

[BobVonBob]

What's the use case you want out of this?

[Emanbaird]

send pics OP

[Captinjigglesworth]

the computers are at school, but itss just somthing I want to try. My school upgraded their desktops so we have alot of extras

8 minutes ago, Emanbaird said:

send pics OP

 

12 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

What's the use case you want out of this?

 

[Captinjigglesworth]

8 minutes ago, Emanbaird said:

send pics OP

 

13 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

What's the use case you want out of this?

I just dont know how to go about it they are dell optiplex 790

[BobVonBob]

Just now, Captinjigglesworth said:

I just dont know how to go about it they are dell optiplex 790

What do you want to do with them? Because if it's not data processing or similar highly parallel work, it's not going to get much if any faster. Not to mention at smaller scales like this with an interconnect that is presumably 1 Gbps ethernet you will probably be better off running them as 6 separate computers instead of pooling them

[Captinjigglesworth]

Just now, BobVonBob said:

What do you want to do with them? Because if it's not data processing or similar highly parallel work, it's not going to get much if any faster. Not to mention at smaller scales like this with an interconnect that is presumably 1 Gbps ethernet you will probably be better off running them as 6 separate computers instead of pooling them

they are really slow and I just was gonna use them as an adobe illustrator or Autodesk Inventor, or game design bc some people do that. all would want to do is use all the cores from all the computers at once

[BobVonBob]

Just now, Captinjigglesworth said:

they are really slow and I just was gonna use them as an adobe illustrator or Autodesk Inventor, or game design bc some people do that. all would want to do is use all the cores from all the computers at once

That's not happening. None of those workloads are built for distributed computing. You might be able to build a render farm out of them for something like Blender, but those usually work better with GPUs.

[Captinjigglesworth]

3 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

That's not happening. None of those workloads are built for distributed computing. You might be able to build a render farm out of them for something like Blender, but those usually work better with GPUs.

we use photoshop and premier too would those benefit from all those cores?

[BobVonBob]

Just now, Captinjigglesworth said:

we use photoshop and premier too would those benefit from all those cores?

No, because you don't have "all those cores", or at least not in the same way that one computer has many cores. You have 6 computers with 2 cores, but that's not comparable to 1 computer with 12 cores. The 6 computers can't communicate between each other fast enough to work on the same thing at the same time.

[Captinjigglesworth]

Just now, BobVonBob said:

No, because you don't have "all those cores", or at least not in the same way that one computer has many cores. You have 6 computers with 2 cores, but that's not comparable to 1 computer with 12 cores. The 6 computers can't communicate between each other fast enough to work on the same thing at the same time.

Ok thanks for your help. Sorry for wasting your time