Using XGrid with Final Cut Studio 2

Hi all,
I'm at the office, we're trying to justify the purchase of a mac pro and another imac. One of the things we're looking to do is use xgrid, or some other distributed computing utility to aide Final Cut pro/studio in rendering and exports. Is there any way to set up Final Cut Pro to utilize xgrid?
Thanks!

Compressor, the compression/conversion utility in Final Cut Studio, has the Qmaster clustering system to distribute compression among multiple computers; Xgrid is not required. For more information, see the Qmaster forum.
Regards.

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