>Are the different COM servers supposed to run on the same machine or on different machines? If they are on the same machine, are they going to run on the same CPU?


Depends on where the bottleneck is. If it is the CPU (maxxed out single core or double core stable at 50%) you only get speed increases if you have a multi-core machine or use other CPU's across the network. We have something like that when calculating distances with mappoint, where mappoint hogs any single core cpu - which is the scenario you describe.

Another possible bottleneck is local data: if that is the case, you can buy more local disks and have to run the further tasks using "local data" from the second, third or fourth disk, only updating a common result table.

So: it depends <g>

regards

thomas