[ale] using the power of two computers

[Jeff Hubbs]

Actually, the Mosix patch has to be applied to *all* machines in the
cluster.  Although Mosix isn't generally intended to be used as a
desktop machine enhancement, there's no reason why you can't put X on
one machine and run it that way (you might have to do something to
prevent migration of your X/WM processes - read up as much as you can). 
Doing something like this won't help everybody, but if a great deal of
your day is spent compiling kernels or other big piles of code, it's
certainly worth thinking about.  

And don't laugh re the "army of 486es" - If you work up a farm of 25-50
of them, think about how wide your I/O pipe is...

- Jeff

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:18, Stephen Turner wrote:
> x2vnc is nice if you want the computers to remain seperate entities on the
> network, however if your just wanting the second computer to add its cpu
> power and ram (resources) to the origional computer giving the origional
> computer additional power and truely makeing them act as one, run some
> cluster server software such as mosix clustering, this allows you to put a
> simple patched kernel on the second computer and together they will run
> every task you execute on the first computer :) however clustering
> computers pretty much rules out having 2 different computers with 2
> different os's, its only good for adding the resources of a second
> computer to the first to strengthen it. but then its not limited to 2
> computers either ;) army of 486's anyone? if your interested in mosix just
> search it out online :) most if not all linux distros have it i believe.
> 
> 
> 
> > > How do I network two (or more) computers together and use it like
> > > i'm using one computer......a how to would help
> > 
> > If you want to run a dual-monitor setup, check out x2vnc. The setup
> > goes something like this: install a vnc server on computer #1,
> > install x2vnc on computer #2. Hook keyboard, mouse, and monitor to
> > computer #2. Hook the other monitor to computer #1. 
> 
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