shared cpu power over network

[CoLBiT]

can i use another computer's CPU on my home network to double computing power?

[QFA350]

Your forgot the QUESTION MARK!

[stev_auo]

Why is there a bot that warns about punctuation?

[Enderman]

6 minutes ago, stev_auo said:

Why is there a bot that warns about punctuation?

Don't worry, hes not a bot, just a warning message.

[QFA350]

12 minutes ago, stev_auo said:

Why is there a bot that warns about punctuation?

I'm not a bot it just annoys me

[manikyath]

it exists, its whats used in supercomputers, rendering farms, and VPS datacenters.

 

although, its not as easy as you probably want it to be. it involves a lot of custom (proprietary & expensive) software, very expensive hardware setups, and very big diminishing returns if you dont have a hugely parallelized load.

 

the reason supercomputers and rendering farms use such a system is pretty simple: one computer isnt powerful enough to do the job, so they stuff a whole load of them in a room to do the work together.

 

the idea behind VPS datacenters using it is slightly different tho: they dont really have a parallelized load, nor do they have much control over what that load is in the first place. they use a system like this to basicly set up a HUGE pool of resources, which can easily be allocated over a MASSIVE amount of custommers, and best of all for them is that it can be made redundant: if the box thats doing a certain custommer's computing at that time cuts out, the load just jumps to a different machine and the client never notices. it also makes it very easy for them to "upgrade" a client's VPS if the client tosses extra money.

 

but yeah.. all that isnt really for home use, because honestly, nothing a home user does really benefits off of this technology.

[Stefan1024]

Some applications like Solidworks natively supports it. But to boost all applications is very difficult as you get a huge delay penalty when offloading tasks to machine in the network.

[Wilde]

One idea I've been thinking about would be using vmware and thunderbolt cards to run single cables to stations and using multiple instances for multiple stations. such as linus's home setup just on a virtual enviroment.