I've worked with computers almost my whole life, it seems. I remember my family's first computer (beige, of course) when I was about five years old. I've come a long way from that first Pentium processor, but that color beige has come back one more time to me...

Pomperaug High School, in Southbury, CT, is one of the most state-of-the-art high schools in Connecticut. All of our computers in the Media Center (library) have LCD monitors, and all of our computers are new Pentium 4 Dells. We have an extremely fast network, our own television studio, and a computer design department with even better PCs for 3D animation and CAD. So what, pray tell, do we lack?

How about a supercomputer?

At school we have some Pentium II PCs lying around, the last of an old generation. I've decided to put those to work in a computer cluster (with the approval of the sysadmin, Mr. Murphy). I'm going to use these as the slave nodes and a slightly better Celeron computer for the master node. To control the nodes, I'll use ROCKS. As for what I'll do with them, I'm not really sure; I think I'm just doing this for the experience. I know that many, many colleges use cluster computing, and this could give me an edge.
For more info on cluster computing, try this page on Wikipedia.

EDIT: I'll use Linpack to see exactly how fast this system works. Then I'll compare it against the best past and present supercomputers at top500.org.