High end computer cluster

[tonybalony]

I was wondering is it was possible to cluster 2 or more high end computers, and if so what would it be like to use?

[samcool55]

There's a name for that: a serverfarm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_farm

[tonybalony]

i was thinking more of a rog motherboard with a 2080ti, then get 2 of then and cluster them.

 

[tonybalony]

Just now, starcoaster said:

well, yes it is, but it requires a custom OS which is usually linux based and is essentially only used for supercomputers where you have a large number of racks filled with 1-2u computer "blades", each having a cpu, some memory and most often a gpu. these types of machine usually employ fibre networking to achieve the bandwidth required to keep all the machines running and aligned with eachother due to the enormous amounts of data they can process.

 

you wouldn't be able to game on one - these machines are best for enormous and highly parallel mathematical problems like weather prediction, particle simulation and large challenges of raw math like finding very large prime numbers

so what would a system like that be able to process in TFLOPs? Would it even be viable for deep learning or anything?

[tonybalony]

Just now, starcoaster said:

it's a hell of a lot more complex than making a couple machines and slapping a USB cable on

That is why I am asking and not doing.

[samcool55]

1 minute ago, tonybalony said:

That is why I am asking and not doing.

It's better to use hardware designed to run in a cluster instead of just throwing some stuff together and going full ghetto to turn it into a cluster.

[tonybalony]

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