OpenStack
A frugal effort in installing OpenStack using Lubuntu. Lets hope it all works. A DevStack Project has started a quick installation of OpenStack on simple setup.
http://devstack.org/guides/single-machine.html
Traditional Clustering
Reusing old pcs to make a super computer? read this.
I havent tried it out myself but apparently 2 easy ways of doing it are as follows.
Either use the kerrighed way or download the new ubuntu 9.04 enterprise. I will be trying it out the next few weeks and will let everyone know on whats happening.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyUbuntuClustering/UbuntuKerrighedClusterGuide
or goto ubuntu website and download the ec2 enterprise edition.
:: why make things even complicated when our brains are not growing any bigger. ::