I would like to see v-ray come out with something like what Maxwell has. Where you have a plug-in and you can send files to render farm on a server somewhere
Re: Render Farm
We have Distributed Rendering which will allow for a single image to be rendered across multiple computers (check out the training manual for more information on how to use it). We don’t have anything like Max’s Backburner yet (which is more set up for multiframe animation stuff), but there has been talks about a number of solutions.