Groucho, It won't be quite 3x as fast, there is some overhead in shipping the scene information across the network and stitching the results back together. Some really simple scenes may actually render slower because of that overhead. It will break up a single frame. It's almost like watching it render on a multiprocessor box with a bunch of CPUs. If you had 2 dual processor boxes and a single processor box, you'd see 5 render squares on the screen. During beta I had 7 CPUs (5 machines) working on the same render. It was pretty neat to see. There is a seperate installer for the render node. I believe it was mentioned earlier that C4 Pro would support 5 render nodes included with the price, but I'm not positive on the exact number. Regards, Eric Winemiller Digital Carvers Guild 3D plug-ins for Carrara http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins