Sharing resources

[Sid]

Hi, I am wondering if anyone can help me determine if it
is possible for one of my desktops at home to make use of
another desktop at home's resources. I am running XP Pro
on everything; have rebuilt the two desktops to include a
new Pentium 4 processor and new motherboard; have a
wireless home network and everything is working fine -
the machines work great. However, we do a lot of digital
images and rendering those images takes hours and hours.
I know if I had a dual processor it would make a
difference, so I thought maybe I could share resources.
Am I correct to think this way? And if so, how do I do
it? I know hackers can do it, so why not me?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

SM

 

[Guest]

I'm pretty sure this is called clustering and I don't know if it is practical for what your doing. You might want to search for info on clustering multiple computers together. If clustering is done via network I don't think it will work verygood over a wireless connection.

If your new computers are running the 800MHz system bus and your runng WinXP you should be running Hyper Threading which is like using 2 CPU's in one computer.

Check your system information in the system tools folder. It will list 2 CPU's.

You might need faster hard drives to increase your rendering speed. You could try SATA RAID 0 for ultra fast.

 

[Steven Hull]

Heh, OSX "Tiger" for Apple has this, its called XGRID. Panther has it as an
add-on I believe. Works for just about anything you script it for.

Also, check with the Application you are using to see if it supports
multi-threading. There are not many apps at all that support it.

I'm pretty sure this is called clustering and I don't know if it is

practical for what your doing. You might want to search for info on
clustering multiple computers together. If clustering is done via network I
don't think it will work verygood over a wireless connection.

If your new computers are running the 800MHz system bus and your runng

WinXP you should be running Hyper Threading which is like using 2 CPU's in
one computer.

Check your system information in the system tools folder. It will list 2 CPU's.

You might need faster hard drives to increase your rendering speed. You

could try SATA RAID 0 for ultra fast.