Hi all, after knowing about fah, a question appeared in my mind. Its kind of stupid question but logical though. In F@h, everything gets more faster and better if more & more computer joins so I was wondering, can we make something like this at home? Can we add 2-3 computers and make one super computer at home?? Edit: By mistake I've posted this in wrong section, moderaters can you please.........
Yes, although it's something I haven't played with. I believe you'd be looking at a Beowulf cluster, and I *think* there's some Linux distro's that are designed for that type of computing.
Clustering is used by animation companies like Pixar to render scenes quickly, although a home cluster wouldn't be a 'supercomputer'.
So it means that its possible to have a small suptercomputer at home... Why do you think like this? btw, what can be done with that supercomputer? Can we play games with full settings or can we go video editing........
When people say supercomputer, they think more along the lines of what [google]Cray[/google] offers. Things a supercomputer is used for are: large calculations (like F@H), animation rendering, simulation. Since these are generally using massive CPU power, not video cards, this wouldn't be a gaming system.
Sure, it could do that, but why would you want to check e-mail and run Word on a supercomputer? Those aren't super intensive tasks, so I highly doubt you're going to get an improvement there.
Clustering is only really useful for doing extremely intense computational tasks, which can be used with software to distribute the processing tasks across a network to multiple nodes. You couldn't play a game with a home cluster since: The game would have to have a clustering feature, which none as far as I know have. Without extremely high performance/low latency networking it would probably hurt performance more than improve it.
