Buliding a computer...

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abbott75

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Ok, heres what I want to do:

Build a computer with many Motherboards and CPUs that will work together as ONE BIG COMPUTER, not many smaller ones.

Pretty much all I want it to do is complex maths problems.

So, a) is it possible? and b) will I need any special software to make it work?

Thanks, Abbott.
 
A. No
B. N/A

What sort of problems will you be doing? Curent computers can calculate 32 million digits of Pi in around 40 minutes (mine can do it in 38), so your not going to need a supercomputer unless your doing something reeeaaaallly complecated like the meaning of life lol.
 
Well if I sound like a newb someone please tell me :D. If you want mobo's working together the only thing you are going to be able to make close to what you want (which sounds really newbish, sorry) is a server. I'm sure you can't have more than 1 mobo in a computer but you can have a dual core CPU. Currently the best dual core CPU out (IMO) is the AMD X2 4800+. If you wait however, AMD is coming out with a socket 940 X2 5000+ and I believe that they are making an FX dual core CPU!:)

Also the compatibilty of DDR2 memory is a +...

Also why are you trying to make such a big computer? Math problems?? What?
 
haha... complex math problems lol.... many COMPUTERS! haha... dude just get one system... with dual core. itll be faster then you ever need it to if your just doing math. lol... sounds like that movie "pi" where that computer he uses to find the meaning of life... but the chip fries in that movie lol... crazy movie!
uhh... thats the M2 socket... not 940, 940 is already AMDs server socket.
plus if you really wanna drop some money, you could get two dual core opterons... but that would be like a good 1,000 for the processors at least, and a good $300 mobo (cheap for a server mobo).
DDR2 is nothing more than increased frequencies, and my pc3200 runs faster than some pc5300 just because of extremely fast timings. the only other advantage to DDR2 is that it supports dual channel with one stick..
 
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Well thats single a single threaded calculation, so I'm assuming your looking at running more then one instance of it at a time. The thing closest to what your looking for would be running a 4 way opteron mainboard. Run 4 of these on it and you can run 8 instances of it easily. Of course thats if your willing to dish out over 10K...
 
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