Many computers working together?

[Davide Anchisi <davide.anchisi@unito.it>]

Hi,

My question is not strictly debian related and rises from two
considerations:
1. most computers, for most of the time they are on, don't use theire
full power;
2. when doing an hard job resources are never enough (the more you have
the better is).
I wonder if there is a way to make 2 or more different machines work
together as a big multiprocessor computer so that resources can be
sheared and used where and when needed.
In this way you could perform powerfull computing tasks without _a_
powerfull computer.

Do you know if it's possible to do that under Debian GNU/Linux and how?

Please answer even to my e-mail adress as I have not subscribed the
Debian-user list.

    Thanks for any sugestion,

    Davide

davide.anchisi@unito.it