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I have at home 4 computers: i7 8 cores, 2*qued and one with dual core. All of the computers have windows server r2 OS on them and they are connected throw a router. Im trying to create a connection between them and build a cluster between the computers. Not a failover or mirroring, I mean a cluster that will let me manage the computer from one computer and making the workloads work in all of the computers. This is my first time im trying to do this and I cant find a decent tutorial. Can anyone help me , what should I do ? where can I find tutorials

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First rule of any project, you need well defined objectives. The servers can already remotely manage each other; that's builtin. Windows has no interent ability to share workloads, and I know of no generic software to do so. Specific applications are built to manage specific workloads, we'd need to know what you're trying to accomplish. Given that this is a home server, which is outside the scope of SF (per the FAQ), this question should be closed. The lack of objectives, details, and prerequisite knowledge are the heart of the reason home server questions aren't welcome here. – Chris S♦ May 11 '11 at 13:01
damn it another poor closure reason, check out www.microsoft.com/hpc for more info on what your trying to do! also technet.microsoft.com/en-us/hpc/default.aspx? – tony roth May 11 '11 at 13:30
The question seem to lack even the most basic understanding of how Windows works and what a domain is. It's impossible to actually answer it. – Massimo May 12 '11 at 12:03
@Massimo he's just talking about a HPC\beowulf type solution. – tony roth May 12 '11 at 13:20
@Tony: that's your guess. It's definitely not the most common way of implementing a "cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2"... and, anyway, guessing what a question actually means shouldn't be our job, it should be the OP's job of making it clear enough to be answered. – Massimo May 12 '11 at 14:33
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I also am very fascinated by the idea of mixing workloads.

Thats why I use linux :) (used to run openmosix on my machines at home)

as for your question, it depends on the workload, you can:

use cinelerra for rendering farm
Condor for running multiple jobs
Citrix xenapp for application delivery , which can be clustered
there were also solutions for .net compiling farm , but I cant find them anymore boinc and others to donate your cpu/ram in other ppl clusters

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