How can I use Grid computing at my home? I have 2 computers, and want to use the power of 2nd computer on 1st?

shah: How can I use Grid computing at my home? I have 2 computers, and want to use the power of 2nd computer on 1st?
Actually I want to use applications at my laptop, whereby, I want to use the additional processing power of my home computer. The two machines are connected using cross-over cable, or if required, I can use a hub or switch. So, please can any one tell me if I can use grid computing or parallel computing or any thing else to achieve this goal? And how and what can I do? Thanks for your kind efforts and cooperation.

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Answer by Jim B
The extra power gained would be negated by the processing needed to distribute the processing and network overhead. Sorry.

For distributed computing to work, you would need more computers. 5-10 is a bare minimum, depending on how powerful they are. Also, day to day computing won’t benefit. Something continuously processor intensive, such as renedering an image or movie is better suited to distributed grid computing.