Set up a render farm with multiple OS and spec I have quite a few computers at my disposal- about 100 mac pro's bought 2 years ago, just as many windows PC's of varying age (1-3 years), 50 linux machines and a good few terabytes of storage on a central server. I'm seriously considering getting everything together into a cycles render farm. How can I set something up easily and quickly which will make use of everything I've got?
You could install BURP on one or more machines, and the BOINC client on the rest. That way you don't have to worry too much about the composition of your farm. This is what we also use on Renderfarm.fi as our backend.

BURP: http://development.burp.renderfarming.net/projects/burp/wiki/How_to_download_the_code