Backburner question

So, I’ve never tried distributed rendering before.

We have 4 computers with Maya 2009 on them.

We have one new computer with Maya 2012 and Backburner.

The new computer is mainly just a rendering computer.

How would we go about sending files to Backburner from our 4 computers running Maya 2009 to the new rendering workstation?

Also, would that workstation be able to distribute the rendering to all of our computers? Or would we have to have Maya 2012?

Thanks!