If a custom massive motherboard for a single machine would be made with connections for hundreds of CPU, GPU and RAM sticks, could regular BIOS recognize all of them and Windows OS be installed on that machine?
If so, would Windows be able to use all of that computing power?
If not what additional things would need to be done to make use of such components on a single machine? Custom BIOS, custom OS?
I am aware that there are many applications which require much more computations that running a PC game but I am still interested if some games could then run at the tens of thousands of frames per second?
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Yes, there are several examples of supercomputers (Cray built one!) running Windows. It isn’t common, but they can do it. They even have scalable file systems now that can roughly mimic ZFS. I don’t know of anyone doing it, as massively parallel applications tend to run Linux based software. That doesn’t preclude Windows since most of those have Windows ports, but why pay MS when you can use it for free?
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