How connect multiple computers with PCIe 3.0 slot to work as one.

[Shabeeb]

How connect multiple computers with PCIe 3.0 slot to work as one.

 

Help me out

[lewdicrous]

Multiple computers? You mean a network?

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

There is no way to do that

[mariushm]

You can't do it directly. The pci-e slots are not designed to allow a card plugged into the pci-e slot full control over the computer

 

You can plug cards in the pci-e slots and then computers can communicate with each other using those cards and complete tasks by collaborating. For example, you can install ethernet cards in pci-e slots and connect a network cable between the two ethernet cards (or have a network switch and two network cables from computers to the switch) and  then you can run a copy of some software on each computer and tell the software to "talk" to each other copy and coordinate in order to complete some work.

 

See clustering. Google it or see Wikipedia.

 

Some more basic stuff than clustering... think render farms. You have to render (draw) a specific number of images (for example 24 images per second, and you have 60 seconds in one minute,3600 seconds in an hour  etc) so you can have 100 computers all asking a master computer to give them work and the master computer gives each of these computers a number of images to render and then waits for each computer to give back the results... when each computer returns the images, the master software can stick together all the images into a movie. 

 

 

[emosun]

essentially clustering computers doesn't give you the "on demand" power of all of them put together

it combines their power to do pre determined tasks that can be completed in sections separately , like rendering a video

[Fasauceome]

What do you mean I can't SLI my inspirons? Can I at least crossfire them?

[TopHatProductions115]

You could try Googling "PCI-e Clusters" or "PCI-e HPC cluster". It would give the following results (not conclusive):

• https://www.hpcwire.com/2011/01/24/a_case_for_pci_express_as_a_high-performance_cluster_interconnect/
• https://www.embedded.com/design/connectivity/4213842/Using-PCI-Express-as-a-fabric-for-interconnect-clustering
• https://www.electronicdesign.com/memory/massive-memory-cluster-builds-pci-express
• https://www.networkworld.com/article/2167120/tech-primers/pci-express-based-fabrics--a-low-cost-alternative-to-infiniband.html

What you're considering is a possible future replacement to Infiniband.