I was thinking that they would run on the same machine. Honestly, I hadn't considered running it on another machine. This might be an excellent solution, as the computers that are now doing the processing are ~1Ghz. I could offload the processing to a dual 3.6 Xeon machine on the network.

Is this solid enough? Can you point me towards any good examples of doing this?

re: the original idea though, it would seem that if the process wasn't maxing the CPU, that running multiple "threads" of the same process would speed things up, no?

Thanks!

-m@