How to assign tasks to a remote machines actors in Erlang to achieve distributed computing? - erlang

Question

Here is what I am trying to achieve, I have an application that is mining bitcoins. I wish to improve its functionality by introducing a remote machine which connects to the server and the server assigns some work to it.
On a single machine, I initially spawn all the processes and store their ids (of actors), then loop through the Pids and assign the mining job to them. Here each of the actor's mines and tries to find the target hash that satisfies the difficulty.
Here is the code for the same:
-module(server).
-export([start/2, spawnMiners/4, mineCoins/3]).
start(LeadingZeroes, InputString) ->
MinersPIDList = spawnMiners(1000, [], LeadingZeroes, InputString),
mineCoins(MinersPIDList, LeadingZeroes, InputString).
spawnMiners(0, PIDs, LeadingZeroes, InputString) -> PIDs;
spawnMiners(NumberOfMiners, PIDs, LeadingZeroes, InputString) ->
PID = spawn(miner, findTargetHash, [LeadingZeroes, InputString]),
spawnMiners(NumberOfMiners - 1, [PID|PIDs], LeadingZeroes, InputString).
mineCoins([], LeadingZeroes, InputString) -> io:format("");
mineCoins([PID|PIDs], LeadingZeroes, InputString) ->
PID ! {self(), {mine}},
receive
{found, InputWithNonce, GeneratedHash} ->
io:format(“Found something!”);
{not_found} ->
io:format("");
Other ->
io:fwrite("In Other!")
end,
mineCoins(PIDs, LeadingZeroes, InputString).
Here, findTargetHash(LeadingZeroes, InputString) is the task miner/ process/ actor will run and return the result if found. So if a 1000 processes are being invoked, all of these are processed on the same machine.
This is what I wish to achieve next: Imagine a new machine with an IP address is connected to this server and after connecting, the server divides these 1000 processes between this machine and the remote machine (500 each, for literally performing distributed computing). I do not know where to start and how to achieve this. Any leads will be appreciated. (Maybe something to do with gen_tcp())