Hello James,

  JB> They could be working parallel through a serial connection. 

In Dan's post I read that as 'series', probably because he mentioned
batteries.  Original Transputers used serial connections, and reading some
of AMD's 'HyperTransport' whitepapers, perhaps the idea is not dead yet.

  JB> I saw on TechTV some years ago, a PC recycler intercepted a pile
    > of relatively older servers, and through NICs had fashioned
    > this.

Sounds like the 'Stone Soupercomputer'.

- Andy Ball

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