(Dale B) 

Quote -   I actually prefer the term rendergarden; we aren't trying to plow the north forty like the big boys do, we just have a few tomato vines under the window. 

     Rendergarden...  I like that!   It handily conveys the smaller scale.

     By the way, I have two networks.  The Big Girls consists of the heavy-hitter workstations and the rack-mount blades.  But I also have a more modest Lil'Gals network, which is exactly that sort of collection of castoffs you describe.  The Lil'Gals network consists of my older obsolete machines, the laptops, and two refurbished HP tower workstation/servers (they have dual Xeon procs and cost $340 each).  Most of us could scrape together something like this.  And it's this collection of obsolete machines (Lil'Gals) which is doing the test render work this morning, checking materials and IDL emitters for new neighborhood buildings for Tink's Cafe'.

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5