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multiple motherboards with one operating system?
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?
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6 years ago
well my computer is almost as big as the room :) imagine that :D
10 years ago
Here's a good example of just what you are speaking of.
Answer 10 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 10 years ago
would the other computer be operational or would it be a slave
Answer 10 years ago
Depends on the situation -- you usually operate one computer, which gives instruction sets to the other slave computers.
10 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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