Hmm, perhaps: there is a passage somewhere about how they set up a scheme where instead of the one person doing all the different computations they set up sequences where each person would only do one computation but for different problems which would circulate through the pool in a staggered fashion of some such.

I think that has to do with feynman's time at Thinking Machines:

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...