Slave dual G5 to Macbook Pro

Hi all,
appologies, but wasnt sure where to post this.
I am wanting to slave my dual G5 to my new Macbook pro to share the processing power. Is it the same as apple-T to link to link the 2 macs?
I remember reading about it ages ago and assume this is what the scienific/film/university comunity does to distribute their process power across 10's or 100's of macs.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Rgds
Mike

Target Disk Mode, sometimes called "slaving," merely mounts the "slaved" computer as an external firewire drive. It has nothing to do with the processors. This is not the way scientists do distributed computing.

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