Only thirty?  I've seen some where they have a large room stacked from floor to ceiling with computers (several hundred!!).  ILM has 500 - that's 16 seconds of render per pass - which may take hours or days in some cases one supposes depending upon the complexity and realism being targeted.

Of course, we're not ILM are we? ;)  Poser could really gain a boost by having built-in net render support.  At least then you can do something beyond the one frame at a time utilizing one cpu only.  I hope they also get the hint that quad-cores are going to be available soon - two of those puppies is 8 processors.  3D rendering is perfect for utilizing them.

e-frontier: the word of the day is 'thread'.  't-h-r-e-a-d'.  Multithread the render process and then pass the threads to each available cpu.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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