This was my proposal at Z80 / AM9511/AM9512 times, just one node per square mm of DUT chip. I also tried to port Spice 2G6 to Interactive Unix on my 80286/287 Bullet board. What a fiasco.
64K segments conspiring with f2c as a Fortran compiler. Never could have worked.But this computer had 2 MB and a 70 MB Fujitsu disk. That was pure hubris in the hands of a EE & CS student. Our VAX11 at the semiconductor institute had 2 300 MB Fujitsu Eagles for all people together. :-) And we made real chip designs on it.
Later I had a T800 transputer cluster, that would have mapped nicely to this problem. But I never could find a customer for any T800 solution I proposed. All went X86.
The only exception was smuggling a Parsytec cluster to east Berlin. But little Gerhard did not dare to. Few did I know. Some weeks later, all the sudden, was the German re-unification and nobody would have cared anymore about smuggling technology to an east-German railway company that went belly-up anyway. Sigh.
Gerhard