Cluster with shared performance

[martin-juras-001]

Hello everyone reading this post, I would like to ask you, if you know about solution to my problem described below.

First of all I have two computers (kinda old, AMD-powered) and I want to connect them to cluster to share their computing power.

I was wondering why I couldn't find any tutorials, probably it is not possible to do. What I want to do is connect to computers in cluster (first one is 1core with 2GB RAM and second 2-core 4GB) and get 3-core and 6GB power. That means if I open (e.g. h/top) I will get sum of their computing power.

Is this even possible? If yes, I would be very happy, if you share with me some of your knowledge.

Thanks for help.

[raja.genupula]

Woow good thinking, We can call this as Virtualization for aggregation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua...or_aggregation

And with a little google search I found this http://www.scalemp.com/products/selective-scaling/

And its worth reading.

Hope it helps.

[martin-juras-001]

Woow good thinking, We can call this as Virtualization for aggregation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua...or_aggregation

And with a little google search I found this http://www.scalemp.com/products/selective-scaling/

And its worth reading.

Hope it helps.

Thank you very much for your time and respond. I will try this software.

[raja.genupula]

Glad you have found what you are looking for, Please mark this thread as solved.

Thank you.

[TheFu]

We see this question all the time. Something so simple really isn't simple. The latency between systems is a major issue - even 100Gbps links are slow.

Generally, clustering is of 2 types - redundancy or dealing with highly, highly, specialized workloads specific ally designed to run on a specific cluster type. Neither of these are suitable for general purpose, end-user, applications. top/htop will not see the combined resources.

On systems like you have, I'd guess server process redundancy would be better. Basically, a website load balancer or reverse proxy. Firefox won't run faster.

http://www.tecmint.com/what-is-clust...ring-in-linux/ is an introduction for the type of clustering you can do.

BTW, I'd bet that product link will be for something in the $10K or higher price range. Not something for a home user with old systems. It will be more cost effective to build a faster system for $150. It is amazing what a $500 system can accomplish these days with selected, used, specific Xeon CPUs coming off-lease. The E5-2670 and 2660 CPUs are extremely impressive for the $70-$90/ea prices. Usually a Core i7 with similar performance runs $600-$1200.

Of course, some of the AMD CPUs were fantastic for their time. I had an AMD 64 2000+ that completely rocked! https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...000%2B&id=2096 ... but 120 passmarks compared to a modern $60 CPU with just under 4000 passmarks is no comparison.

People are building clusters with raspberry pis. http://makezine.com/projects/build-a...ry-pi-cluster/ - interesting to me as a cluster trial, but a modern CPU would be both faster and cheaper.

Anyway, lots of options and knowledge out there.