1. A method implemented and residing within a computer-readable storage medium that is executed by one or more processors of a network to perform the method, comprising: configuring network nodes of the network to detect network packets of a predefined type and to forward those network packets among the network nodes without removing the network packets from the network, the network packets are identified as memory objects of the network; and using, by each of the network nodes, the network packets that are traversing the network as a memory device shared among the network nodes.