re: Vista home basic & 2000 network
Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 6:27 am
Posted by Charlie Hadden
(854 messages posted)
Your info is a little limited. Do you have this device as an existing service with
ADSL or is this a device you picked up somewhere like a yard sale? Without the ADSL
service you have a 50/50 chance of configuring and unknown ADSL router as "JUST"
a router. Many of the installation softwares will not even install without the ADSL
being present. If you are hooked up with the service you should have an installation
disk, instructions, and basically you just plug in another computer and run Windows
network wizard. Make sure you have the right cable. either straight or crossover,
which ever is required for that device. If this is just something you picked up somewhere,
just go to the big box store and buy a switch/hub for $14.95 and do it the simple
way.
As far as the super computer thing goes, You probably will not make you new game
machine run any faster. It will probably run slower. This is not something used
for adding 2 + 2 = X. You have to realize that in a sense todays home desktop is
yesterdays supercomputer. The 1989 Cray Benchmarked at 1.02 teraflops. Your modern
desktop runs so fast they have to measure the rendering speed of some designated
game or application to compare it. The core two duo quad processor chip is 4 independent
computers on a chip. That is the concept of the Cray computers of the late 80's early
90's. Multiple processors working together. First they put two and four chips on
the same motherboard. Then to go even faster they put multiple processors on the
same substrate. Maximum PC magazine (late 2007)had a couple of articles that really
simplified discussion where they were talking about the differences between the AMD
processors and the Intel units. CPU mag also had some good articles. Their arguments
boiled down at that time to AMD thinking that having a path a few micro inches less
than that of the Intel, because of connecting them all to the same buss, made theirs
faster and Intel thinks their strategy is still faster. And you want to connect two
boxes through some CAT5 wire a few feet long!
Another thing to look at, when universities and major corporations were doing this
they were dealing with calculations that took hours to run and dividing up the work
load into small segments among individual users.
You probably will never need anything like that.
I included the link to what I think is the only existing windows software for the
network processor sharing.
http://www.lfbs.rwth-aachen.de/content/mp-mpich-dl
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