Can my G4 dual and G4 iMac become ONE 'PUTER?

[clamboni]

I'd love to use them both simultaneously - use the better computing power of the G4 dual along with the coolness of my sweet new 17 in iMac and have two monitors going... i doubt this is even possible or a good idea.

But can't I combine them to make one mega super computer???
Otherwise, I might have to store my sweet little iMac away for a rainy day - there's just no reason to have both right now.

 

[witeshark]

Offhand I don't know of a way to cluster those two...

 

[Absolute Zero]

Xgrid maybe?

 

[Ryanstech]

Your dual procs. G4 would make a great server that you could control from the sweet 17" imac if you have a need for something like that.

 

[SogniX]

My Dual 533 Mhz Tower, even tho beats my new 1Ghz PowerBook - I have setup as a File Server, Print Server, Scan Station...

Need to store movies that you don't want to waste your iMac's hard drive space for? Store them on the Tower!

You can mount the tower's drives locally on your Mac and they look and act just like the hard drives on the Tower.

 

[Osiris22x]

Yes, you can combine the RAM and processing power of both machines using "cluster computing". This is essentially the same process used to create a Beowulf computing cluster.

As for how do you do it? I'm not even going to try and explain it over the internet.

 

[Matt]

^^^

Is this expesive? How much? (US)

 

[Graphite]

xGrid anyone?

 

[Osiris22x]

^^^

Is this expesive? How much? (US)

No, the software required is free...open source.