Are computational farms thousands of computers owned by BTG?
Not necessarily. A FarmNode is a logical laboratory with its own identity, tools, rights, data and operating policy. It may use physical hardware controlled by BTG or another organization. A large network could include independently operated farms, subject to real trust and commercial arrangements. One workstation running several workers is a useful local development test but not proof of several independent institutional partners.
A research node represents a laboratory, not a physical box.
A computational FarmNode can contain a problem mandate, pinned source data, executable tools, NIKI workers, DataChips, Circuits, experiment schedules, resource limits and sharing policies. The laboratory retains its logical identity while its execution can move between machines or authorized computing environments. A GitHub repository may preserve definitions and evidence, but it is neither the active runtime nor a substitute for governed storage.
Independent participation requires separate control.
Multiple processes on one computer demonstrate local routing, not three independent scientific laboratories. Cross-institution qualification needs separately controlled hosts and identities, evaluators who reproduce the claimed result under their own conditions and signed records of what was actually observed. Network scale should be measured in qualified independent participation and useful research, not inflated by the number of logical node names.
The answer above preserves the original whitepaper text; this additional explanation is interpretive guidance, not a new claim of certification, legal authority or commercial launch.