I have 2 old office pcs which I downloaded latest ubuntu server release(20.04.1 lts). And I want to connect each other so I can only have to ssh one of them and I can combine their hardware.
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I have 2 old office pcs which I downloaded latest ubuntu server release(20.04.1 lts). And I want to connect each other so I can only have to ssh one of them and I can combine their hardware.
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Beowulf clustering is what you should look for. Depending on your load it may or may not be worth the effort.
One of those "sounds like a good idea".
But in practice more trouble than necessary or worth.
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"Combine their hardware" for what purpose exactly? If it's only for file sharing, there are much easier solutions than building a Beowulf cluster like running NFS.
By the ways, servers are generally not very CPU intensive so the gains from clustering for most services is pretty small.
As an example, I have a virtual server at Linode that provides mail and web services and runs both MySQL and PostgreSQL. It has a load average of about 0.05. The laptop I'm using at the moment has a load average ten times that.
Last edited by SeijiSensei; December 9th, 2020 at 06:31 PM.
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