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leegroves86

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I've heard it for years that there are ways to connect 2 or more computers and have both of them running in a "raid 0". Does anyone know how to do this cheapely?
There must be a way to have them both networked together and be as one. Any ideas? thanks
 
Originally posted by: leegroves86
I've heard it for years that there are ways to connect 2 or more computers and have both of them running in a "raid 0". Does anyone know how to do this cheapely?
There must be a way to have them both networked together and be as one. Any ideas? thanks
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You can network computers together, and have operations segemented between machines. The calculation power of a network of computers configured like this can create a combined figure to what supercomputers are capable of. As far as doing a RAID, which is has nothing to do with a cluster of computers, is possible. I don't think that any file systems support raid over the network. You may check out Dynamic File System, but I'm not sure if it has that capability. Though the latency penalties involved would probably be too great to gain any significant performance from machines configured in such a manner.

Your best bet would be to do searches on computer clustering, parallel computing, and High Performance Computing/High Performance Scientific Computing.
 
I believe with a specific type of Linux(not sure which one??) that you can run mutliple computers connected together as if they are one more powerful computer which is effectively a super computer. There is no way of doing a cluster with Windows, so if that is your goal, you can either write some software or forget it.
 
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