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is it possible to link several barebone systems (dual-cpu, small hard drive, little RAM) together to make a single main systems run fast as hell?

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Not that I know of. If you know how motherboards work you might be able to get somthing like that to work (I think it has been done before), but it would not be that good :(

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the main reason I was thinking of maybe linking a few backbone systems together was so I can maybe render like a professional render farm. Also I was thinking, more CPU power, the faster SETI@home and the United Devices cancer research project can go. I was thinking of just buying maybe those slim servers that stacks up on a rack, but I'm not sure if that will do what I want it to do.

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Like said above, what you are refering to is called "clustering" it is done in Windows 2000 Advanced server for redundancy in case of a failure, and to distribute processes, I once saw a guy bought a pallette of emachines (like 160 of them i think) and using linux made a beowulf cluster and used it for 3d rendering and stuff. None of the windows products support it until you get to Advanced server, not even Server supports it. Gonna have to go linux for that and I would have no idea where to begin. But just to clarify "clustering" is what you are refering too.

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Originally posted by liferay

thanks for the replies, I guess I'll read up on clustering.

clustering requires a pretty snappy operating system. for example

you'd need windows 2000 advanced server or unix or something to do it. also learn about load balancing too

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Originally posted by xStainDx

clustering requires a pretty snappy operating system. for example

you'd need windows 2000 advanced server or unix or something to do it. also learn about load balancing too

appreciated :)

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