Joining two pc together

I got a bit of spare time on my hands and 2 old pcs that i brought for
comic relief. they both are the same. 300mhz with 128MB RAM. I was
wondering would it be possible to join the motherboardds together so
that the main components of the boards ie: processors, RAM, VRAM were
shared.

"naza" wrote:

I got a bit of spare time on my hands and 2 old pcs that i brought
for comic relief. they both are the same. 300mhz with 128MB RAM. I
was wondering would it be possible to join the motherboardds
together so that the main components of the boards ie: processors,
RAM, VRAM were shared.



No.

"naza" wrote in message
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I got a bit of spare time on my hands and 2 old pcs that i brought for
comic relief. they both are the same. 300mhz with 128MB RAM. I was
wondering would it be possible to join the motherboardds together so
that the main components of the boards ie: processors, RAM, VRAM were
shared.



though you cannot electrically join them, two or more machines may work
together in a cluster


http://www.ram.org/computing/linux/linux_cluster.html


that should keep you busy for a year or so

Theoretically you can put one SCSI board in each, declared with different
IDs, an SCSI cable between them, hard disks, SCSi peripherals, ...
They will share the peripherals but I don't know if they'll see together.
This is an old project I aborted last year.
I'd be pleased to read the gurus about it ...


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"naza" wrote:

I got a bit of spare time on my hands and 2 old pcs that i brought
for comic relief. they both are the same. 300mhz with 128MB RAM. I
was wondering would it be possible to join the motherboardds
together so that the main components of the boards ie: processors,
RAM, VRAM were shared.



No.

You CANNOT share the CPU's and RAM of two different computers.

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DaveW
"naza" wrote in message
ups.com...
I got a bit of spare time on my hands and 2 old pcs that i brought for
comic relief. they both are the same. 300mhz with 128MB RAM. I was
wondering would it be possible to join the motherboardds together so
that the main components of the boards ie: processors, RAM, VRAM were
shared.

Ok. I wont try electrically joining them together but i am interested
in creating a cluster. Do you know hwere i can get inofmration about
this and any ideas on how to get it working on the windows enviroment,
as i believe most of the software is for linux.

I have not seen computers work together in the manner you are suggesting.
The closest thing I have seen is grid computing, similar to what seti at
home did, each computer is given a task to do then the results are
collected.

I have never seen where two independent pc's are connected in some fashion
such that computing tasks are coordinated and load balanced automatically by
the OS's.

-g