Distributed computing

It is possible, though its going to be more effort than its worth

>>60985255
Harvard PHD of computer science level effort?

>>60985246
>combine them together power rangers style
I like you

>>60985246
See >>60985255

>>60985345
Yeah, pretty close. You'd probably get the combined power of a low end modern desktop with 10x the power draw, meaning you'll have high bills and a warm house for basically nothing. Just buy a $100 Core2 Quad desktop. You can use the old laptops for hobbyist programming after you fix them up and install Gentoo. That's about all.

You're looking for a Beowolf cluster. You can get good performance, but probably not the kind you want. It'll only be good for distributed workloads that don't require intercommunication. The latency and single-threaded performance will be shit; the only advantage is you get a large number of independent threads.

>>60985246
make beowulf cluster

>>60985345
No, just understanding how to program against apache spark or somesuch. Not that hard.

Or if you just want to compile gentoo, run distcc.

>>60985246
youre basically creating your own amd cpu

>>60985483
I installed Lubuntu on one of them and it's shiiiiiiit, Mint looks really cool though

>>60986192
Use Debian or Gentoo with Openbox and Tint2. XFCE will also work of they have at least 1GB of RAM and a 1GHz CPU.

PXE boot Arch on them, it auto launches an SSH server so you can just do all your shit like that.
If you need serious work done, write a script to install disk so you've got more package space to play with, maybe install VNC and i3
Debian is a bloated sack of steaming shit and you don't wanna wait for Gentoo to compile on them

>>60985246
its much better to sell them and buy single modern PC.
>t. just finished a bewoulf project with old PCs compared to single modern 2 core 4 threads

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>>60986924
picrelated
PC was singlecore athlon
v3515 core2duo l1310 celeron

>>60985246
if you have free power set them to mine crypto
if not sell them and buy something better