Desktop Server for Helping Weak PCs

[Diablo Pollo]

I'm looking to get a high end desktop workstation/gaming rig, but with a few extra bells and whistles: I'd like access it from at least two weak laptops for decent gaming or working over LAN or internet

I understand there'd be latency issues over the internet itself, so the gaming wouldn't be incredible. But would it work well enough? And could it supplement its GPU power to two or more laptops over LAN for gaming?

Also, I tend to do some time consuming calculations, so could a laptop use its own CPU and the desktop CPU together for added speed?

I'm looking in the ballpark of at least 16 CPU cores, 64 GB ECC RAM, and 2 or 3 GTX 1070 tis, but am open to suggestions...

Is this possible, and how so?

(Probably gonna make the purchase in October, so I'm just planning at this point...)

Thanks!!!

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

41 minutes ago, Diablo Pollo said:

Also, I tend to do some time consuming calculations, so could a laptop use its own CPU and the desktop CPU together for added speed?

No os level clustering , does your program support it?

 

42 minutes ago, Diablo Pollo said:

I'm looking to get a high end desktop workstation/gaming rig, but with a few extra bells and whistles: I'd like access it from at least two weak laptops for decent gaming or working over LAN or internet

You can try remote desktop and other sharing programs, but latency isn't great unless your on wired/

 

42 minutes ago, Diablo Pollo said:

I'm looking in the ballpark of at least 16 CPU cores, 64 GB ECC RAM, and 2 or 3 GTX 1070 tis, but am open to suggestions...

Is this possible, and how so?

(Probably gonna make the purchase in October, so I'm just planning at this point...)

Thanks!!!

Wait till october, there will preobably be newer faster gpus by then. 

 

Why all the slower gpus, get a single faster one.

 

 

[WereCatf]

1 hour ago, Diablo Pollo said:

Also, I tend to do some time consuming calculations, so could a laptop use its own CPU and the desktop CPU together for added speed?

Only if your application has specifically been designed to support doing that. Most applications haven't, so, in most cases, the answer is a "no." Whether your application supports that or not, you'd have to check in its manual or contact the manufacturer's support.

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I understand there'd be latency issues over the internet itself, so the gaming wouldn't be incredible. But would it work well enough? And could it supplement its GPU power to two or more laptops over LAN for gaming?

Not supplement, no; you'd have to set up separate virtual-machines for both laptops and run your games in them (and stream their output via e.g. Steam in-home streaming), but that'd mean that the games would be running entirely on the beefy desktop and wouldn't be able to use any of the laptops' grunt, whatsoever.

[PolarisLun]

Have you looked into geforce now idk if thats what your looking for though

[AskTJ]

AMD are releasing Threadripper 2, a 32 core, 64 thread processor that costs around $1500 (rumoured, not confirmed). 

[Mornincupofhate]

A simple solution is to buy that steam streaming device they released and use that. It works over LAN.

 

You can't do what you're proposing.

[Diablo Pollo]

20 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

No os level clustering , does your program support it?

 

You can try remote desktop and other sharing programs, but latency isn't great unless your on wired/

 

Wait till october, there will preobably be newer faster gpus by then. 

 

Why all the slower gpus, get a single faster one.

 

 

I'm pretty new to all this...

 

No clue about the program supporting that kind of stuff? Probably not since it is mostly math and CAD, and this stuff would be pretty different from what people typically do

 

I'll certainly look into remote desktop

 

That's a good idea to wait for the newer GPUs, and I'll get a faster one. I just assumed I'd need a few if it had to supplement other devices

[Diablo Pollo]

20 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Only if your application has specifically been designed to support doing that. Most applications haven't, so, in most cases, the answer is a "no." Whether your application supports that or not, you'd have to check in its manual or contact the manufacturer's support.

Not supplement, no; you'd have to set up separate virtual-machines for both laptops and run your games in them (and stream their output via e.g. Steam in-home streaming), but that'd mean that the games would be running entirely on the beefy desktop and wouldn't be able to use any of the laptops' grunt, whatsoever.

Yikes, that sounds complicated... I certainly need a simpler solution.  Electronics Wizardy mentioned remote desktop and I guess that may work. No what I had perfectly in mind, but it may just be the best way to go

[Diablo Pollo]

20 hours ago, PolarisLun said:

Have you looked into geforce now idk if thats what your looking for though

I looked at GeForce Now. My desktop would already have decent hardware, so I just thought I'd find a way to use that when I'm away with my laptop.

I'll just go with remote desktop