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Does anyone know how to combine the power of 3 computers together? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My dad told me to look into something called "parallel computing" but I don't really understand what it is or how to put it into practice.

I have a raspberry pi 4, and two windows computers.

I can wipe the raspberry pi and one windows computer, but I am looking to run games (that can't currently run with just the one computer) on the other windows computer.

I apologize if I'm being dumb, I don't know as much about computers as I'd like.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Parallel computing is something where you break a big task into a bunch of little tasks that can be completed in parallel by a bunch of different computers. It's something you do on specific problems, rather than something you'd use to speed up video games. Typically, you'd parallelize something like doing a big physical simulation that could take weeks to complete, not something that needs to complete all the math for a frame in 1/60th of a second.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

^ This.

Even simple stuff like SLI (having multiple GPUs for rendering games) can be complicated and not widely supported anymore. Parallel computing is basically reserved for servers at this point (which makes sense, if you're running something intensive like an AI service, you don't want to put it all on one server.)