Making my computers work together

[Red Stranger]

Hi,
Is there a way that I can link my computers together to make them run as a mini supercomputer? I think that "Google Compute" can take the computing power of many computers and make them do one task. Well, I want to do the same thing, except instead of using it for google, I want to make my computer faster.

If there is a way to do that, can you please let me know.
Four of my computers run Window XP and are within the last four years, if this helps. I mainly want to use them.

The other four are a little older, but I'd like to use those too if I can.

 

[Speedo]

Short answer: No, not in the way you're thinking of.

 

[vyapti]

Beowolf Cluster

Probably not terribly practicle, but interesting nonetheless. I had a super-geek friend set up a cluster of 486s (back when Pentium II was big), mostly so he could say he did it.

 

[dragokatzov]

what vyapti said, except Beowolf clusters will not work with xp. you might be abel to get everything to work with Windows 2003 (one of the server editions) but i doubt it.