I have intentions of building 3 to 5 regular PCs and hooking them up together in parallel in order to have it act as some sort of super computer. This idea mainly stems from the fact that I want to process lots of information such as 3D editing programs and emulators for near current systems. Are my attempts in vain because progress in computer hardware is not current enough?
2007-08-07 18:00:20 · 5 answers · asked by karmagfaqs 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
check the web for Beowolf cluster computing
this is a GNU system for loading and running problems in Linux using clusters of appliance computers.
good luck
2007-08-07 18:05:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A wonderful idea (will be cited for being interesting) , There would be a number of advantages in having a computer being located there: The absence of oxygen (other gases, moisture and particulates) would ensure the computer a long trouble free life, however, shielding from cosmic and solar radiation would have to be provided. The temperature could be maintained at a very low point which would benefit the electronics, especially so if a superconductor were somehow used. Solar power would be abundant (for a 'month' at a time)---batteries would have to be charged and used for the month (lunar night) of darkness, also, nuclear energy could also be safely used to power it. If the supercomputer were located on the 'hidden' side of the moon, there would be no radio, or other artificial emanations from Earth to interfere---that is, if radio waves would be a problem. There is an abundance of silicon dioxide and other compounds on the moon which could be manufactured into some of the necessary components of the computer. It certainly would be safe from Earthly vandals, terrorists and mischievous Martians! It would be far enough away from Bill Gates so as to not have to be run on monopolizing software...j/k Bill.
2016-05-21 04:11:08 · answer #2 · answered by halina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As mentioned, there are beowolf clusters that basically do the same thing. I think it's a great idea.
I would love to see a supercomputer formed across millions of computers on the Internet. SETI@HOME and other's have connected hundreds of thousands of computers, but the problem is they weren't always connected. I would like to see something that was always connected. I suppose that the only problem would be that it could only support super-threaded applications, which aren't common.
2007-08-07 18:33:18 · answer #3 · answered by Michael M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't the military have terrabyte processors?
2007-08-07 18:04:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah.. what Dennis said.
2007-08-07 18:06:37 · answer #5 · answered by darkhybridxii 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋