You can render portions of an animation...

Send the .pov file to all machines.
Send any .inc or .mcr include files to all machines.
Send the general animation options .ini to all machines.
Send the sub-frame animation options .ini to each machine,
(this can be done once if processor load is fixed).
Call povray on each machine:
povray sample.ini myframes.ini
Get the resulting frames from each machine.

// sample.ini
//--- example of general animation options ---
//--- this is the same for all machines ---
Input_File_Name = sample.pov // file to render
Output_File_Name = sample.png // name of output files
// (sample01.png, sample02.png, etc.)
Width = 800  // image width
Height = 600  // image height
Initial_Frame = 1      // start frame
Final_Frame = 100   // end frame
Initial_Clock = 0.0  // start clock
Final_Clock = 1.0  // end clock
Post_Scene_Command=copy sample*.png z:\render\

// myframes.ini
//--- example of the sub-frame animation options ---
//--- this file is different on each machine
Subset_Start_Frame = 0.334 // start at 33%
Subset_End_Frame = 0.666// end at 66%

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