Clustering Projects

Over the years, there has always been some sort of cluster development or another going on. At the moment, we are experimenting with Instant-Grid.Above: a stack of relativly fast pentium 4 nodes.
Above: the master node under the table and its monitor.
Below: a close-up of the master running Instant-Grid.
Before experimenting with Instant-Grid, we used a custom build of Parallelknoppix. When using it, at least three big/notable povray rendering clusters were made (probably more which I can't remember.) But Instant-Grid has a lot more features, and although its documentation is half in German, it is remerkably easy to use.

Cluster nodes

There are many, many, computers lying around the ACCRC. These are pictures of but a few of them. In the past, clusters have been made, usually running povray on parallelknoppix. They rendered pictures which were converted into animations.

With all this computing power available, what other kinds of distributed clustering jobs are possible? Any ideas?