Re: 2 computer networking

Hi Channel9 people,

I have my recent machine, and I also have one that is old (P3). Is there a way to use the processing resources of the P3 machine to help improve performance of the recent machine?

If so how can I go about doing this?

Best Regards.

PC

PolymorphicCode wrote:

Hi Channel9 people,

I have my recent machine, and I also have one that is old (P3). Is there a way to use the processing resources of the P3 machine to help improve performance of the recent machine?

If so how can I go about doing this?

Best Regards.

PC

Not with Windows.  I'm sure you don't want to do this with Linux or something.

Generally you can't do this, although some high end 3D and video rendering applications allow you to spread the work out amongst many computers to get the job faster. This is accomplised by running an application that splits the job up and designates different computers to do different areas before stitching it all together, so even in this situation it is not true "processor sharing" so to speak.

Ambition wrote:

Generally you can't do this, although some high end 3D and video rendering applications allow you to spread the work out amongst many computers to get the job faster. This is accomplised by running an application that splits the job up and designates different computers to do different areas before stitching it all together, so even in this situation it is not true "processor sharing" so to speak.

but you could write a set of windows services and do some stuff....


write a service that uses tcp or even better for local use netpipes

stream data over a pipe to the other system let it crunch it and send back results...

but with just 2 pc's I do not think it would do much...

but if you had say.... 5 or 10 or more....

1 pc runs a "process manager" - possibly MSSQ ??
4 to N pc's read from a stream or act as MSMQ clients and send back reply messages with results.

if you had a need for it... like a render farm, or paralell build etc...

figuerres wrote:


but you could write a set of windows services and do some stuff....

I don't think a service can help on this, unless the applications running are written by himself.

Afterall, all he need is a process schedular that enables him to distribute the load sensibly over the network. It'd to be either the kernel or the application doing so. Anywhere in between would not give satisfactory effect.