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I've been reading articles that say I can connect computer mainboards/motherboards in series - how do you do that?
Does anyone know of any site with how-to info on that? All over Google, I've only been pulling up articles that generally describe what doing that can do for computers but no DIY info...
By the way, does connecting one brand of motherboards differ from another? (like connecting only two Intel motherboards or connecting only two AMD motherboards...)
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Posted 12 October 2011 - 05:37 AM
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I've never heard of such a thing, but I would imagine you would need to have some specialized hardware for this. Think about it: a motherboard is meant to be a standalone unit with expansion slots for graphics cards, etc. I'm guessing you would either need a specialized motherboard that is designed to connect to another via a cable, or you would need a set of specialized cards to provide the same form of communication.
One way I can see doing this would be to have a bunch of motherboards in a single housing with ethernet cards strung together to form an "in box Beowulf Cluster" type of effect.
One way I can see doing this would be to have a bunch of motherboards in a single housing with ethernet cards strung together to form an "in box Beowulf Cluster" type of effect.
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 10:32 PM
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Yeah, this would be the type of thing you would find in a IBM super computer. I have seen plenty of videos on Youtube (including a AMD CPU running at 8.4GHz) and my fair share of manual pages, but never a single thing about multi-motherboard setups.
It's probably only a thing for computers running lots of CPUs (and I mean lots).
It's probably only a thing for computers running lots of CPUs (and I mean lots).
Please, write clearly with proper structure. Double spacing makes the text feel un-jointed, Capitalizing Every Word Means People Stop Before Every Word Sub-Consciously Which Is A Pain In The Backside, and use code tags! (The right most styling box).
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 02:13 AM
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Even if this were possible with most consumer main boards, internal data transfer and power supply may simply not support the load that two boards would give it. It would make more sense in regards to WingedPanther's observation however that is less (useful) from what you have thought to describe.
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 09:11 PM
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I guess I misread that article regarding Danny Hillis - in the story about him, it says that he made a computer out of motherboards connected in series.
I searched up wiki and got other articles of him - including the supercomputer he built from scratch.
W. Daniel Hillis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Connection Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WingedPanther's right - guess it's really micorprocessors connected in series.
But if that's the case, any tutorials or articles out there that you know can help one make a DIY supercomputer?
I searched up wiki and got other articles of him - including the supercomputer he built from scratch.
W. Daniel Hillis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Connection Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WingedPanther's right - guess it's really micorprocessors connected in series.
But if that's the case, any tutorials or articles out there that you know can help one make a DIY supercomputer?
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 09:17 PM
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You're free to purchase/acquire multiple servers/computers (scaling horizontally) and set them up as a Linux cluster. You could upgrade maybe four (scaling vertically) with better/multiple processors as well for possibly less cost.
You will however require software to leverage each core/processor/node, programs will not naturally take all of that computational power.
A further note, a good Nvidia GTX card can process numbers largely faster than central processors, some people sometimes hook together PS3's or SLi configurations to crunch a lot at a time.
You will however require software to leverage each core/processor/node, programs will not naturally take all of that computational power.
A further note, a good Nvidia GTX card can process numbers largely faster than central processors, some people sometimes hook together PS3's or SLi configurations to crunch a lot at a time.
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 01:49 AM
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So, do you know of any website that can instruct me how to do that? Or even a book?
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