That message more or less is the same as a MAXScript “unknown system exception”. Its an error, but it doesn’t say anything about who or what the problem is. Have you tried using the “Submit Partitions Locally” button to do the partitions on a workstation? Does the scene work when directly rendered to an image? Is there a complex FumeFX simulation that is driving your particles?
My hunch is that one of the particle producing objects is unhappy in that scene. Can you send it to our ticket system here: http://support.thinkboxsoftware.com/