A project for HPC by Derek GIrardi during the Fall 2012.

This project was begun on October 15th and is anticipated to take 3 days. (Change this whoever takes up the project).

The purpose of this project is to obviously connect 2 or more screens together so they work seamlessly as one big screen. Hopefully one will accomplish on how to correctly network these computers together and be able to utilize their skills of computers by doing this.

In order to successfully accomplish/perform this project, the listed resources/experiences need to be consulted/achieved:

• Teacher
• Google
• Linux Command line
• Linux environment
• etc.

As stated above, one may want to have more then one screen at their disposal. When programming, you begin to need multiple terminals open to reference previous code you have written and soon one screen becomes cluttered. So this becomes a necessary tool to be able to connect 2 or more screens. It is a a simple task when there are so few in numbers but if you get good, you can attempt to connect a wall of computers, sort of like a video wall. Many people do this today such as gamers and programmers, they will have a multi screen setup for the looks and ease of use it creates. This project would be a very good project to undertake if you ever wanted to have your very own video wall set up!

To do this project i suggest just writing out the steps you are taking to do this, screenshot any images or code and upload images as needed.

Step 1: First you are going to need the obvious, 2 screens! Your teacher should be able to provide you with these screens with no issue at all.

Step 2: Do some research and see what needs to be done to accomplish your task

Step 3: gather up the necessary parts to begin the process of connecting the 2. The rest i leave up to you!

Upon completion of the project, if there is an applicable collection of created code, place a copy of your finished code within <code> </code> blocks here.

/*
 * hello.c - A sample "Hello, World!" program
 * 
 * written by NAME for COURSE on DATE
 *
 * compile with:
 *   gcc -o hello hello.c
 *
 * execute with:
 *   ./hello
 */
 
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main()
{
    printf("Hello, World!\n");    // Output message to STDOUT
    return(0);
}

Doing this project will be very rewarding i believe and i hope someone takes from it!

In performing this project, the following resources were referenced:

• http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-set-up-multiple-monitors-in-linux/

This might help out too!