multiple motherboards with one operating system? Answered
i have heard multiple operating systems linked together to form a 'supercomputer',but it only still has all the operating systems, so my question is multiple motherboards with one operating system?
Exactly -- a render farm, or any other 'cloud' computing cluster does just that -- but it doesnt make for 'one' computer -- each has its own operating system and just crunches numbers for a collective algorhythm. You only interact with one machine really, the rest are just extra cpu brute force.
A mainboard and it's bits form a machine. You can link several machines together (Re-Design) but to build a single machine with multiple processors, you really need to have hardware which is designed for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
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4 years ago
well my computer is almost as big as the room :) imagine that :D
9 years ago
Here's a good example of just what you are speaking of.
Answer 9 years ago
Exactly -- a render farm, or any other 'cloud' computing cluster does just that -- but it doesnt make for 'one' computer -- each has its own operating system and just crunches numbers for a collective algorhythm. You only interact with one machine really, the rest are just extra cpu brute force.
Answer 9 years ago
would the other computer be operational or would it be a slave
Answer 9 years ago
Depends on the situation -- you usually operate one computer, which gives instruction sets to the other slave computers.
9 years ago
A mainboard and it's bits form a machine. You can link several machines together (Re-Design) but to build a single machine with multiple processors, you really need to have hardware which is designed for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
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