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?

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    7 days ago

    It is complicated. There are several options, each with tradeoffs in functionality, compatible software, and performance.

    A simple method is to use one system as a desktop, and SSH into the others as “headless”.

    Other options include making a K8s or HPC cluster (there are other cluster types).

    Spreading a single set of communicating processes requires a low latency interconnect. Something better than Ethernet, like Infiniband. But many programs don’t support that.