Mutiple Mac Pro Tools Network: Master - Pro Tools / Slave - Plug-Ins Set Up

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Hey Digi people what's good? I have a situation with CPU processing power thats forcing me to upgrade to a more powerful mac. I run big sessions (lots of tracks and lots of instrument and processing plug-ins.) Now I was getting into Vienna Symphonic stuff and I came across their page on the new Vienna Ensemble 3 in with they claim:
"This mixing and host software incorporates the first all-in-one MIDI and audio LAN solution that works universally on Macs and PCs. Developed exclusively for Vienna Instruments, it makes conducting your orchestra over a network a breeze. Run your sequencer on your main computer, launch Vienna Ensemble 3 on the slave computer, and simply connect them using an Ethernet cable. With the sequencer on your main computer and Vienna Ensemble 3 with Vienna Instruments plug-ins on your slave computer, you can easily route the audio streams of a whole arsenal of computers back to your main machine and mix where your effect plug-ins are installed. The Vienna Instruments plug-ins preserve your main computer’s CPU capacities – the computing (including GUI rendering) and streaming from hard disk is done on the slave computer."
I am going to have 2 macs in a few days, so naturally the concept came to as to why not run ALL my plug ins on one mac as a slave and run pro-tools on the other as a master. The problem is I know little of networking so I was hoping some one here could let me know if this was possible and how to do it.

Thanks,

Norman

[Craig F]

Pro Tools does not support this.

[Gemylon]

Originally Posted by Craig F

Pro Tools does not support this.

Its been almost 4 years.

Could this be done today, or is ProTools still unsupported ?

[I have a 2008 8-core MacPro that I want to use as a slave ...]



Thanks,
G

[Craig F]

processes load sharing is still a no
splitting the session up and using Satellite to have other systems chase can work but the audio does need an interface

[Gemylon]

Thanks for reply.


Now I've decided to get rid of my old Mac Pro,
and go for an external thunderbolt solution for my PCIe Cards.
Should be future-proof and portable.


Geir