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hello ihave 4 older shuttle xps "toaster computers"
lying around and wanted to make a cluster like connect them all and combine their processing power like how some people do with raspery pis so thanks in advace and best regards,
,lukas
ps. i have a powerful IBM systemx if i need a "master" computer
pps. why it syays im running win 95 i have no idea im runing windows server 2012 r2 Just testgin it out (so far i hate it but im still using it
Last edited by sycho123321; 12-02-2013 at 09:01 PM.
I just want to connect them all together somehow without any
special hadware and increece thier proscing pow and also would i need a master computer? i think i also want to do SMP
Last edited by sycho123321; 12-03-2013 at 06:29 PM.
You can't exactly hook them up like a conventional smp processor. Normal clusters are made for very specific tasks and use programs that are not for common users. The old Cray systems had a unique cable that basically attached system backplanes. X86 systems never had that.
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