This is dumb

[craig588]

What if 2 processors were put into parallel? I have the resources to get a custom PCB built that would have 2 sockets on it and insert into a regular mobo. Heres where I was going: If one of them crashes, the other might not at that moment and when a new command gets sent to both of them it would unstick the crashed one like a reboot. What's the liklyhood of them both feeling like crashing at the same moment on the same cycle?

Would they simply interfear with each other and not work at all?



Remember, I warned you in the topic, this is a really dumb idea.

[Ugly n Grey]

That technology sorta exists on some the cell based supercomputers, but the problem is it works like an ECC mode and pulls that core out of the computing process altogether, runs a diag on it and then restarts it to join the bus....because when you have a whole lot of CPU's going, you can get an error just from a stray cosmic particle (yes it happens)...

But the problem is not paralell execution, it's that you need one unit in a config like that to always be sorta the Boss and send commands for video/hardware etcc back to the bus itself, after all both chips can't be sending the exact same results back...the other hardware would not know what to do no matter if the custom PCB actually worked... (recall folks he is talking about two chips but not dual CPU computing)

Just my thoughts..