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Unread 05-09-2005, 16:50
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Re: Grid computing software

Maybe I don't understand your question, but from what I understand of how all this works, you do want a cluster. If I understand you correctly, you have 2 computers and you want to distribute a time consuming task between them. If your software supports multiple processors, then it's probably multithreaded, so cluster computing should work. Depending on the exact setup of the cluster, each node is treated as a processor. Essentially, you end up with a giant multiprocessor computer.

Edit: From what I understand, "grids" and "clusters" are functionally the same, but physically different.
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