Cluster Computer Help

[Hyperthread]

Hey guys, i have 8 old dell computers and i want to make put 4 of them together and make a cluster computer. I don't want to use Linix, i was wondering if anyone could help me set it up? If you need any more information let me know!

[SLAYR]

16 minutes ago, Hyperthread said:

Hey guys, i have 8 old dell computers and i want to make put 4 of them together and make a cluster computer. I don't want to use Linix, i was wondering if anyone could help me set it up? If you need any more information let me know!

Any reason why? It can be done, but you will need workloads that can work in that environment which is very few besides what they use supercomputers for and , windows 7/8/10 will not work on a cluster computer, and you would be better off selling the 4 dell computers and buying a single more powerful computer especially if they have like p4s, or core 2 duos in them.

[Hyperthread]

Just now, SLAYR said:

Any reason why? It can be done, but you will need workloads that can work in that environment which is very few besides what they use supercomputers for and , windows 7/8/10 will not work on a cluster computer, and you would be better off selling the 4 dell computers and buying a single more powerful computer especially if they have like p4s, or core 2 duos in them.

No reason why, just because i have them. I might use it for storage and or file processing. I think they all have 4 cores each. Ill have to look again. I thought there was a way to make it using a windows server OS.

[porina]

I think MS did dabble with a compute version of Windows years ago but it didn't get anywhere. This is for hard core clustering, in that all systems for part of a cluster working on the same job and needs to share info directly between each. Generally they also have higher bandwidth/lower latency connections than ethernet.

 

At a practical level, you can run them as separate computers doing separate tasks as part of distributed computing. Probably the nearest you're going to get without a lot of setup pain.