FAQ

Can you connect two laptops together for better performance?

Can you connect two laptops together for better performance?

Yes, but difficult. If a single machine’s work spills over the caches or DRAM it may be worth going to a second machine, but it is highly dependent on the task and what latency you get between machines. PCIe extenders are likely to work better than using Ethernet.

Can you combine two laptops together?

You can’t. The closest thing would be using a program called “Synergy”. It lets you take two computers on a network and use the same mouse/keyboard to control both. When you move the mouse to the edge of one screen, it pops over to the other computer and then you are controlling both.

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Can you link 2 computers with an Ethernet cable?

The simplest method to connect two computer systems without using the internet is through an ethernet cable. Once the connection is established the two systems can share files between them and also view and edit those files.

How do I cluster two laptops?

You can create a cluster in 5 easy steps:

  1. Make sure that both computers have each other’s public key to ssh without a password.
  2. Connect them with an ethernet cable, and make sure that the network between them is active.
  3. Configure your hosts file using the ip addresses in your LAN:

How can I get more processing power on my laptop?

Here are seven ways you can improve computer speed and its overall performance.

  1. Uninstall unnecessary software.
  2. Limit the programs at startup.
  3. Add more RAM to your PC.
  4. Check for spyware and viruses.
  5. Use Disk Cleanup and defragmentation.
  6. Consider a startup SSD.
  7. Take a look at your web browser.
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What graphics cards do super computers use?

A previously CPU-based supercomputer, Jaguar, was upgraded with Nvidia GPUs to become Titan, a GPU supercomputer. Its performance went from 17.59 petaFLOPS to 27 petaFLOPS. The commercial Nvidia GTX Titan GPU is named for the supercomputer.

Is it possible to combine two or more processors in one computer?

Yes, it is possible to combine two or more CPU processors in a single computer :-). Normally, such a setup is used in servers and workstations with Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. The current king of the ring in this category of processors is Intel Xeon E7 8890 v4 which has 24…

Is it possible to split a computer memory between two computers?

And maintaining a mirror image of your computers memory on another computer requires so much overhead that it easily defeats the purpose of trying to add another computer to gain performance 🙂 But the type of things which can be split among multiple computers are image rendering or some mathematical calculations which can work independently.

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Is it possible to hook up two computers to one computer?

It is possible to hook up two computers but not possible to obtain their combined processing power for single application use. I understand that you are asking this question that your computers processing power is slow to run an application like around 2.2GHz.

What software can run on multiple computers at the same time?

Specific software might have components that can execute on other machines, e.g. protein folding, SETI @ home. These tend to be specialized, i.e. you can’t start up Excel and tell it to use another computer for computation.