Use netbook processor with laptop?

Use netbook processor with laptop? I don't know if this is possible or makes sense to do anyway, but I was thinking - could I somehow add my netbooks processor to another computer to act as an external core for better performance on the primary computer?
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Guest [Entry]

"In the general case, no, clustering is generally only good for running applications designed to be run on a cluster. There are issues with dividing tasks across separate nodes (latency is a non-trivial factor) that simply aren't considered in most desktop applications.

There are some tasks / applications that do implement support for this. If you've got a specific task in mind you might benefit from doing some looking around. Examples that come to mind are:

Aqsis - Renderman Compatible Renderer, can be distributed using Deadline (see this tutorial), or, apparently, using CUPS (yes, the print system, see this tutorial).
DistCC - Distributed compiler based on GCC

Both are very much limited to specific domains, but other examples probably exist if you wanted to do more research.

Is there a specific task you're trying to speed up?"

Guest [Entry]

"Early supercomputers used parallel processing and distributed computing and to link processors together in a single machine. Using freely available tools, it is possible to do the same today using inexpensive PCs - a cluster.

more here: The ""Mini-Cluster"""