Link G5 and G4 Duals together for rendering?

Hi and thanks in advance. I have a G5 dual and a G4 dual and would LOVE to link them together to speed Compressor for the overnights. How do I do this please?
It's like an urban legend, but would make life so much more efficient.
Thanks! Easy win for somebody!

I suggest waiting too, right now dual cores are going into consumer level Mac's, so Quads Intels should become the norm for Mac Towers very shortly. Possibly with a eight core come early next year.
Software is still up in the air, third party PCI cards haven't even been made because the new Mac Pro Towers haven't even been announced.
I haven't seen much in the way of PCI-Express options either.
As you know rendering takes time, the more CPU's you have the better, and although you could go now, it's not the best move at this time.
Hopefully we will see faster Mac Pro's with more X-Grid use by Apple software, we could build our own clusters. This would be a tremendous hardware advantage over Windoze PC's now that the processors are the same in each platform.
FCP renders could be automatically split up and delegated to networked cluster Macs via XGrid. HD is very disk/CPU intensive, large files too.
As some have noticed, the PPC Quad sports two Ethernet connections.
BlueRay drives are coming, it's a whole new industry of HD video disks.
Yep, waiting until the dust settles and Rev 2 with eight cores might be the wise choice.

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