Distributed Computing?

[danielsangeo]

Hey, folks! I have a radical idea but I don't know if it's possible or not so I wanted to get y'all's input on this.

I have two computers (a desktop and a laptop). The laptop I don't use too often except at night when I should be going to sleep, so I was wondering if it was possible to distributing processing power to my laptop to ease some of the burden my poor desktop computer takes with all I demand from it.

Is something like this at all possible, like through a network cable or something?

Thanks!