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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Combining two MoBos...
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:05:28
Message-Id: igl565$eu6$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT: Combining two MoBos... by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On 2011-01-12, meino.cramer@×××.de <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > this is a shot/question into the dark:
6 >
7 > Suppose I would have two identical motherboards (desktop), both identical
8 > equipped with a multi-core CPU each (AMD).
9 >
10 > Two questions:
11 > 1: Is it possible to run one of the boards without a graphics card?
12
13 That depends on the board.
14
15 > 2: Can I "combine" both (how?) to use the power of both for rendering
16 > purposes?
17
18 Yes. Use any of the available parallel-programming libaries:
19
20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_programming_model
21
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