How to Connect 2 computers to use both cpu's for tasks

[DancingElephants]

I have 2 dell optiplex 780's and a ethernet crossover cable. The computers are already connected to each other and I can play games with someone else easy. But I'd like to play music, make games, etc. on one machine, and the other machine to be dedicated to boosting the first one's speed. One surfs the web and somehow the other takes some of the load sort of thing. How do I do that?

 

[kanewolf]

You can not do what you want with traditional software. What you are describing is "distributed processing". Only specially written software can do this. Think -- folding at home.
Your best option would be to sell the two Dells and use the money to buy a single faster computer.

 

[wpgwpg]

Depending on what you have, most CPUs have multi-processing built in. Even the I3 has models that can run 4 threads concurrently, the I7 can run 8, and there are probably CPUs that can run more if you want to get into the expensively priced things. As Kanewolf points out, you can't normally share applications across multiple PCs without specialized software that's not part of Windows.

 

[USAFRet]

I have 2 dell optiplex 780's and a ethernet crossover cable. The computers are already connected to each other and I can play games with someone else easy. But I'd like to play music, make games, etc. on one machine, and the other machine to be dedicated to boosting the first one's speed. One surfs the web and somehow the other takes some of the load sort of thing. How do I do that?

Can't do it for what you're looking to do.

For some very specialized use cases, yes. Folding@Home, geospatial rendering, running Facebook...stuff like that.
Gaming, surfing, music...no.

 

[DancingElephants]

Games and software are made to do this, how do you think office computers are are connected?
That slot the phone / internet cable CAN also work into 2 seprate machines with an ethernet cable.
Here's a how-to connect them, my question however does not have a solution. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sTtjF2IjI

 

[USAFRet]

Games and software are made to do this, how do you think office computers are are connected?
That slot the phone / internet cable CAN also work into 2 seprate machines with an ethernet cable.
Here's a how-to connect them, my question however does not have a solution. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sTtjF2IjI

Connections between "office computers" is completely different than what you are asking.
Sure, you can access and share "files" that live on different systems. That is normal, done every day.

Sharing the CPU, GPU, or other resources...that's a whole different thing.

To access files on the two individual systems? Have you turned on File and Print Sharing? Network Discovery?

 

[DancingElephants]

Yes.