I did an academic clustering project at one point with Cluster Knoppix, which booted over TFTP much like this. Shared data for the calculations was mounted wit

I did an academic clustering project at one point with Cluster Knoppix, which booted over TFTP much like this. Shared data for the calculations was mounted with a script via NFS, and everything else was memory resident/stateless via PXE boot of a Live image.