In a mainframe class data processing system having multiple logical partitions and a port to a network, a host-network interface is established for reducing network overhead at the multiple partitions. Generation of a final product is made faster because fewer interstitial products are created than in prior systems and, therefore, summing of the interstitial products is faster. The forming material has substantially uniform coefficients of thermal expansion and heat transfer. A first interface connector is for receiving or transferring the electrical signal. A textile may comprise transmit and receive sense lines configured so that when an object contacts the textile and depresses one or more transmit lines against one or more receive lines, the object may be detected by monitoring unique signals produced by the transmit sense lines into the receive sense lines to detect the object.