gorgon_123
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Talking to my computer geek uncle the other week I asked him whether or nor it was possible to run multiple CPU's inside the same computer. My reasoning is this: I have two PIIs and a plain old Pentium in the house that are used essentially as glorified typewriters at the moment. I want to run them all together with my main computer, a P3. For example: One processor plays MP3's, while one runs the OS, while one runs a game.
My uncle told me that this was possible in his mind, but hadn't heard of anyone who had tried it. And it would probably only be possible using Linux.
Here are my questions:
1. Is this actually possible?
2. Would each CPU need it's own individual RAM?
3. Would the operating system treat them all as individual processor's or would it be required to "trick" the OS into treating them as one?
4. How easy/hard would this be to setup?
5. What other forums/sites would be more appropriate to be asking this?
6. What do you think?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, they are indeed valuable things
My uncle told me that this was possible in his mind, but hadn't heard of anyone who had tried it. And it would probably only be possible using Linux.
Here are my questions:
1. Is this actually possible?
2. Would each CPU need it's own individual RAM?
3. Would the operating system treat them all as individual processor's or would it be required to "trick" the OS into treating them as one?
4. How easy/hard would this be to setup?
5. What other forums/sites would be more appropriate to be asking this?
6. What do you think?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, they are indeed valuable things