Business Objects in Unix environment

Can anyone explain to me what I am seeing when I submit this unix command on my Business Objects report server:
ps -ef | grep nikutst
I get several lines that show:
nikutst 23886 15890 0 Feb 25 ? 0:37 Xvfb :2 -screen 1 1024x768x24 -sp /opt/CA/SharedComponents/CommonReporting/bobj
There are about six of these lines at any given time. The only difference between each line is "Xvfb :1". Each line increments, such as "Xvfb :2", "Xvfb :3", "Xvfb :4", etc...
Anyone know what these are?

xvbf daemon is supporting interactive reporting processes used by BOE on UNIX.
what you see is normal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb

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