Slave Computer??

[jentzsch]

Okay I have a friend who just got a brand new PC and still has his old one too (not sure exactly how good either are) and he asked me if there was anyway to 'slave' a computer and make one help out the CPU load on the 'master' I've never heard of anything like this, except with maybe big servers, but I thought I'd ask the pros

[jentzsch]

Has anyone ever even heard of this before?

[SpaceSquad]

basically...not to much use

they have beowulf clusters..but those only benefit from many systems..not 2.

no performance to gain.

[paulbabbitt]

Well, my neighbor has something sorta like this, exept he has a video card that allows him to switch from one computer to the other by pressing a button on his computer, (he uses on moniter to do this) so he could be waiting for battlefield 2 to load and while its doing that he could switch over to the other computer and go to some other game.

[zepper]

Yup, probably best to use a KVM switch (probably what is being used above) and run both computers off one kbd, mouse and monitor. Then you could have things appropriate to one machine or the other running at the same time w/o bogging the other at all. I'm sure you can get them that will switch using a keyboard shortcut as well as manually switching types.

.bh.

[jentzsch]

Thanks SpaceSquad, to you other two, thats not exactly what I was asking about, all that is is using two comps off one monitor, the comps still work seperatly, I was curious about having the comps work together.