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Is there a way to connect multiple desktops and treat them as one system? (slrpnk.net)

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I have some desktops (the tower kind) lying around and I'm wondering if there's a way that I can connect them all to one display and combine their computational power or at least make them all accessible in one place. I want to get into server hosting but only have one monitor. They're currently running LMDE.

Any ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are you telling me Beowulf clusters are back?

Jokes aside, it depends what you want to do. You can't really build one powerful gaming PC out of multiple, but your can run parallel workloads in a number of different ways. What exactly, comes down to what you're doing. A kubernetes cluster is different from a Blender render farm, for example.

As others mentioned you can just remote into the servers with ssh, vnc, rdp, etc. if you want physical displays on them, you can look for a cheap KVM which lets you control multiple PCs with one keyboard, monitor, and mouse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy Slashdot batman!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How many of us old Slashdot users are here, anyway? 5 digit UID here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

5 digit here too: 56k something. I think there are many. It feels a bit like those days and I've noticed a lot of GenX people here.