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In 2015 Ripple formed the RippleNet Committee, an advisory team made up of major banks including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Japans MUFG Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Westpac and Spains Banco Santander, which invested in Ripple and began experimenting with early versions of its payment technology. communication) between computers is present in a distributed computer system except in regard to sharing the same hard disk drive and/or printer. The method of claim 28, further including processing different portions of the additional task at the same time. The A and B links (especially if used to form a comlete ring of computers on the same level) avoid such upward passing by providing communications links to computers 100 on the same level or lower levels. A multilevel computer system including high level computer means and low level computer means, comprising: communications link means for transferring the portions of a task within the computer system, said communications link means including first link means and second link means; said high level computer means including at least one computer means and operable for receiving a task, for distributing portions of the task to said low level computer means for processing of said portions based on the availability of the low level computer means to process one or more portions of the task, said availability being previously communicated to said high level computer means from said low level computer means along first link means of communication link means and for processing, if currently available, all undistributed portions of the task; said high level computer means also operable for receiving from said one of said at least two computer means of said low level computer means portions of the unprocessed additional task and for distributing for processing those portions of the unprocessed additional task to the other of said at least two computer means based on the availability of the other said at least two computer means to process one or more portions of the unprocessed additional task, said availability of the other of said at least two computer means being previously communicated to said high level computer means from the other of said at least two computer means along said first link means, and, if available, processing those portions of the unprocessed additional task undistributed to said other of said at least two computer means; said communications link means also for communicating to said high level computer means along said first link means from said low level computer means the current availability of said low level computer means to process one or more portions of the task and for communicating to said high level computer means along said first link means from the other of said at least two computer means the current availability of the other of said at least two computer means to process one or more portions of the unprocessed additional task, said first link means coupling said at least one computer means of said high level computer means to said at least two computer means of said low level computer means and operable for transferring the portions of the task and additional task bidirectionally, each of said second link means coupling said at least two computer means of said low level computer means together; wherein the number of first link means and the number of second link means associated with each computer means of said low level computer means are unequal and wherein said high level computer means and said low level computer means are operable for processing different portions of the task at the same time and for processing different portions of the additional task at the same time and wherein each computer means within the low level computer means is coupled to at least one other computer means within the low level computer means through two second link means whereby the low level computer means forms a ring of computers.