Connect a small number of computers together to create a more powerful computer. "Small number": not needing to worry about the many possible kinds of faults, networking can be a single switch.
Because there so many ways people might want to do it, best is probably the Unix philosophy: a collection of small tools that people can hook together in many different ways. (Bad is a walled garden.) Many great small tools already exist, e.g., ssh, clusterssh. What others are wanted?
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