Two computers one task???
 

I have some video work I am doing and it is a slow and menial task.

I have a couple computers here a dual p3 1.0 and a p4 2.4 I wanna know if it's possible to network them so they can work on one task together using all of their CPU together?

It is possible, but generally if you only have two computers, it isn't worth it. If you have a larger bank, and the tasks can be run on UNIX, you can do some amazing stuff.

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muff, not w/ windows... i assume your encoding software all runs on windows? you could look into setting up a beowulf cluster, but you'd have to come up w/ *nix solutions to your encoding needs. i have 4 P4 1.8GHz systems set up in a Beowulf cluster that i do some encoding tasks, but i did have to set up quite a bit of scripting to make it work properly... there is no painless way to set up what you need however, do some searching on 'beowulf clustering' if you want to get some more info..

Thanks for the info guys.

Did some searching on beowulf clustering seems a little advanced for someone with no unix experience.

Soul I'll trade you 1 digit UIN for the super computer?

Distributed computing isn't very windows friendly. Unix on the other hand no problem. My recommendation would be to launch a video task on each computer for 2 different videos. Just reduce the amount of encoding your doing by spreading the videos on each machine. Not much else you can do under a windows environment.

WG

Yep :( Wish I had of learned Unix or Linux before I got hooked on Windoze

It isn't too late. One of the easiest ways to ease into Unix is to get a Mac with OS X. It has a real unix (BSD) base, with a UI you can get used to. Implementations are available for tools such a beowulf.

I hoped I would never use a MAC again but might be worth it to get the basics of Unix down.

I'll research it thanks for the tip.

It's never too late to learn.

http://www.suse.com
http://www.debian.org
http://www.freebsd.org

^^ All free. I suggest SuSE, it is the most Windows-friendly. It comes with a nice GUI and does all the automatic hardware detecting and stuff you're used to.

SpaceAce

Thanks for the links :thumbsup

If you don't know Linux at all, I would suggest mandrake (or maybe redhat). Very simple, almost as simple as windows even.

freebsd and debian would most likely not be very suitable for someone new to linux, and in my opinion mandrake and redhat are easier to learn than suse.

I think you're best bet is to do what you do on machine A but do it on Machine B as well.

I do large amounts of video encoding and i use Windoze apps for it with about 6-7 machines all running at once. I use VNC as my interface for those network machines.

If you can find software that does batch work you'll find you can do a shitload more video with everything running overnight.

do people still sell AOL IM names on ebay? LOL. I can develope some software for you to use with FreeBSD if you want. I can also set up everything for you if you're local. Let me know :)