I have a bunch of computers lying around ehre and i would like to take 8 of them and make a halfway decent cluster but dont know how. i've done a few google searches but any help would be appreciated.
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It depends on what you're going to be running on the cluster since there's several different styles of clustering.
There's High Availability (HA) clustering, which means if one computer running a database or webserver goes down, a secondary unit will transparently take its place. I know Windows and most unix variants have this capability, but I'm not sure of a good resource to point you at.
If you're into something like 3D graphics and want to put together a render farm, check out what Chromium has to offer.
If you're building your own software and doing something like simulating nuclear explosions, predicting weather patterns, or some other number-crunching-intensive problem, you might look at building it with LAM-MPI or Beowulf underpinnings. However, you should know that just installing the substructure without using programs that take advantage of it will not help you at all.
If you're just looking to run several programs at once and want the load to be transparently spread among several systems, look at MOSIX or openMosix. I don't know if there's any similar project for Windows, but I believe there's a set of software for OS X called AppleSeeds that does basically the same thing.
Finally, check into what different OS vendors have. I believe HP has something completely different for HP-UX, IBM has something else really cool for AIX, and so on and so forth.
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