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by blackoil 1787 days ago
How feasible is to split/use compute power of multiple devices?

I would love to travel with a 15" ultraportble which is good for mail/browsing but will crawls while trying to play Flight Simulator. When I reach home, it seamlessly uses power of 599$ XBox compute centre to run it on 60FPS. When I reach office it compiles millions line of code using power of a 500 core office server.

Central server can be shared across devices so all devices of all members of family run at same speed/capability.

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You can buy an e-GPU, if your device has thunderbolt and isn't an M1. Compatibility isn't great and it is obviously more expensive, but it is more or less what you suggest, with the limit that you can only use it with one computer at a time.