I was wondering if it is possible to use two sepreate computers to do the same job. Not neccessarily over a network. I have two laptops that both run WinXP and I want the two to share their resources. So basically I want one computer to be the master and the other computer to just be a slave and do work all of the time. If anyone knows how to do this please let me know.

ThanksSo you want to network two computers to share resources? Please be a little more specific about what you are trying to accomplish. With laptops, a wireless router and 2 wireless cards (if they don't have onboard wireless capability) would accomplish basic networking.No i don't just want to network them. I don't just want to share files. I want to run a program on a machine and have both machine use their processor to do the job. When I said resources I meant computer resources like memory and processor resources. I was wondering how I could tell the scheduler to make this work.

ThanksNot worth the effort and expense with only two computers. This is getting into the realm of grid computing. Even if you could afford the (extremely expensive) commercial software, you might not get the desired results. Some software does not easily lend itself to this type application. Of coarse, if you are a SUPER duper programmer, you might be able to write your own grid application. so there is no pratical way of doing distributed computing with two laptops. I am an expert programmer but I do not think I can accomplish that task by myself. So is this a no dice with distributed computing.

ThanksIt would go on my "lost cause" list. Not so hasty!

Have you not heard of OpenMosix?

It's free. Naturally, it's Linux-based. Jebus !

Ive been thinking about doing something like that since i started using Maya, and 3dsMax

Rendering takes many bits of power.

I'm going to go and See if i can royally *censored* up all my computers now.

Recipe for Destroying an entire network.

Add one PanboyWindowsUser + Unknown Linux Distro + Cluster Networking = Lots of smoke
Dose any one know If maya Has a linux version i know theres a mac Version, and im not found of Open source alteritives. But if you know of one could u tell me.

Maya the GRAPHICS package? I doubt it has been ported, but there is a heck of a lot of graphics software available on *nix platforms.

It's all fiendishly difficult to use, of course.

BEAR in mind FOLKS that parallelism is something software must be designed to utilise. (Using semaphores, and other such stuff I don't remember from my comp. sci. theory days...) And two computers working on one task never equates to twice the speed. There are always collation overheads, waiting overheads, etc.