About network resource sharing

[Fallout]

Hi, I have a (very small) network of 3 pcs at home and I was wondering if you could set it up in a way that a program would use the resources of all computers in it.
In other words if I have a program that does its job in say 30 minutes running in my computer can I set up the network so that program will use all 3 computers and do its job in 10 minutes or less time ? If so ,how ?

 

[dderolph]

I doubt very much that that idea is feasible for a small network of 3 computers. The concept you're thinking of is, I believe, what is known as Distributed Computing, but, due to the cost of complexity of setting it up, it is usually used for large scientific computing projects.

 

[Nothinman]

Basically you want a cluster and there are a few problems with that. Firstly, I assume you're using Windows and Windows isn't used very often in clusters (MS' failover stuff doesn't count) so the available software is limited and usually very expensive and on top if that you need the apps to be cluster-aware to be able to use the other nodes for computations, 99.99% of software isn't written like that.