Thanks, but I have no idea how to do any of that. I was hoping for some guidance.

Split to 500 servers to couple sets and process each set in separate task in parallel.

I was working on a script to download a series of files from various ftp severs around our site. About 500 in total. My current script would login to a server, download the file, logout and repeat. But this would take a long time to complete. Is there any way of connecting to multiple ftp's at once? The file names are all the same, as is the username and password. Any ideas?