I and another computer science student spent an entire semester internship just trying to get Globus properly installed and configured in the CS lab for one of

I and another computer science student spent an entire semester internship just trying to get Globus properly installed and configured in the CS lab for one of our professors. It (the cluster computing software infrastructure of Globus) was a ridiculous sprawling mess of poorly integrated components. I've gone through both Gentoo and Linux-From-Scratch and can honestly say it is easier to assemle the parts for an entire operating system than to get Globus working (at least that was the case in 2008). I could see a definite need for a lightweight solution with a simple install package, but I wasn't in the position to write one.