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Thread ID: 87054	2008-02-06 06:57:00	Speeding up CPU through LAN	aonghas (12649)	Press F1

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637871	2008-02-06 06:57:00	Hey guys, My friend was wondering if there was a way to speed up your computer for general usage through LAN? For example if he had two computers, could he connect them up to speed up one of the computers and use it like a dual core system? If not, do you think there could be software/drivers made to allow this to happen, or is it just impractical? Cheers aonghas	aonghas (12649)
637872	2008-02-06 07:02:00	Maybe if you had Linux, or some server version of Windows	Speedy Gonzales (78)
637873	2008-02-06 08:00:00	It all depends what OS your using. OSX can do it, and there are a lot of programs that support it. As for windows I'm not sure.	plod (107)
637874	2008-02-06 08:06:00	It's not impractical, this is generally called distributed computing (en.wikipedia.org). The most prevalent examples would be the Folding@home (folding.stanford.edu/) and SETI@home (http:) projects, however these are indirect, obtuse examples. I'm not aware of any software/hardware solutions for this on the Windows platform unless one of the Server (2008 possibly?) versions supports this (which I doubt), but I do know that Apple's OS X Server supports this OOTB (www.apple.com), coined Xgrid.	sal (67)
637875	2008-02-06 10:25:00	There are a few programs that you can use this technique for, they are all mainly 3d rendering/video rendering suites that I have come across. You would need a very fast network to make any decent difference aswell (if you are wanting "realtime" processing"	dirtbag (6060)
637876	2008-02-06 19:03:00	My friend was wondering if there was a way to speed up your computer for general usage through LAN? For example if he had two computers, could he connect them up to speed up one of the computers and use it like a dual core system? http://www.beowulf.org/ en.wikipedia.org(computing)	robsonde (120)
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