Timeline for Should I connect 2-3 laptops to form a supercomputer?
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 20:37 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | @NikeDattani I would generally agree, but if it’s what you have available some laptops can do fine (and save you the cost of a UPS at the same time). | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 18:58 | comment | added | Nike Dattani - No Free Time | @AustinHemmelgarn but I wouldn't recommend laptops for that. | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 17:22 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | FWIW, this type of clustering can be very useful, but just not for this type of workload. You need to be either looking at an embarrassingly parallel workload (something like the stuff researchers run on BOINC), or have a primary goal of redundancy (think like for cluster-based storage systems) or cross-verification of results (again, a bit like BOINC). | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 11:52 | comment | added | nickpapior | To add to this, to expect a 3x speedup for 3 laptops also requires them to have the same specifications. No need to match a celeron with an i7... | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 8:53 | comment | added | fho | Just to add to this answer, albeit a bit tangential: I like to bring up the yourdatafitsinram.net page. These days it's perfectly feasible to fit several TiB into RAM (feasible depending on your budget). And doing that will pretty much give you a higher speed-up than distributing your problem over a cluster of computers just because you don't have to synchronize over a network. | |
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| Jun 16, 2021 at 15:33 | comment | added | Nike Dattani - No Free Time | Yea, the honest truth is that I think connecting 3 laptops together this way would require a lot of time and effort and achieve no great outcome. I wish my answer didn't have to be so sad, but I prefer to give the truth more than anything else! | |
| Jun 16, 2021 at 10:39 | vote | accept | Parmeet Singh EP 066 | ||
| Jun 16, 2021 at 10:39 | comment | added | Parmeet Singh EP 066 | Your answer made me sad, but thanks for saving a lot of my time and money | |
| Jun 15, 2021 at 22:02 | history | edited | Nike Dattani - No Free Time | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2021 at 20:41 | history | answered | Nike Dattani - No Free Time | CC BY-SA 4.0 |