RE: https://digipres.club/@philpem/116613275145567112
There's an approach to Conway's Game of Life which computes small rectangular tiles of results, with a cunning coordinate transformation such that each tile depends on just 4 predecessor-neighbours instead of 9.
The larger the tile, the less communication between neighbours.
This might be a good match for a small transputer network.
We made a nice 6502 version for the BBC Micro with 64k second processor - not as a general network, but separating compute from display.
Thread here
Conway's Game of Life for Atom, Beeb, Elk? https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12010
and see also
Conway's Life on 6502 https://6502.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4293
Here's a 6502 life (expanded 6502 memory space) running a Turing Machine pattern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjUb8g2kED0





