> I've thought it should be simple to plug multiple computers together to multiple their power. It is simple - it's so simple it became a meme: https://en.wiki

> I've thought it should be simple to plug multiple computers together to multiple their power. It is simple - it's so simple it became a meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster - almost every Slashdot comments-thread in the early-to-mid-2000s would reference it somehow. But distributed-computing isn't popular because it just isn't particularly useful for the things people want to do with their computers: combining all of my own computers together isn't going to make watching YouTube any better, not even make my games run faster.