Thanks folks, The prospect of 8 Xeon 2Ghz chips rendering an animation with a nice small macine size (compared to 8 PC's) is too tempting to miss. Also comes with 4GB of RAM upgradeable to 16GB. (Whimper!) I'll fire the question over to DAZ and see if they can help any further. Apparently if Solaris allows you to spoof an ip to each processor (i.e. virtual machine) but I still think the issue would be a single network IP in terms of the card. Off to the Daz Forums I go :)