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Can WinXP be a parallel operating system?
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Are you talking about clusters? Making a network of computers that act as one? We need more details.
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to answer the first part, no windows XP cannot do that (or anything similar). For the second part, see Cheator's comment.
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More along the lines of distributed computing where you use several computers to act as one. Windows already can deal with more than one processor transparently., so can it also use several computers as one.
Is there such an operating system?
Is there such an operating system?
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What you are describing is clustering, Linux as well as windows server operating systems have the capability of doing this.
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Microsoft Windows XP is capable of dual-socket (maximum four-way) SMP with uniform memory access. It is not capable of cluster computing.
You may want to google Beowulf Cluster and see what you come up with.
You may want to google Beowulf Cluster and see what you come up with.
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in my experience microsoft 'clustering' is more of just load balancing than anything.TazExtreme3 said:
For example and Exchange cluster just divides up client requests between servers. So a flat out redirection not a true cluster when compared to beowulf. Thats not to say it doesn't work, just that the definitions between OSs are a bit different.
