CompuServe Messages

John, did you ever consider the practicality of 9,999 nodes? The animation would HAVE to be 9,999 frames to work in theory but would the net ever be fast enough to get all machines working before the first machine would be finished with frame 0 therefore calling for frame eg. 7892, say?? Maybe if the animation was 9,999 frames and the render time was say 2-3 hours per frame??? I wonder what the PRACTICAL limit of nodes would be using the fastest net technology? Any math wizzards out there looking for a brain teaser for this Sunday afternoon to work on????