I was doing some work and thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to have my own cluster?" I'm guessing not many people have those types of revelations, and probably fewer that decide they should go ahead and solve the problem. I wanted a cheap, small, easy to pack, light, quiet, low-power cluster that I could sit on my desk, and not even think about it. I did a little bit of research of what equipment to use and decided on the following:

(1) EEE PC-901 -- A good option for a management node due to it not only being small and portable, but also includes a screen to allow as a front-end to the cluster.

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