Welcome to cisTheta2007! CisTheta is the name of a Linux Cluster my students and I put together. CisTheta2007 is the Baldwin High Computer Science Research Class or Independent Study Cluster Team. We're learning how to build and program a cluster.Here's our first renderings. These plots are graphs of the Mandelbrot Set. The first plot took less than 2 minutes on 25 nodes. Each node is a Pentium IV running at 2.4Ghz with 1GB of RAM and GigaBit Ethernet. If we were to run this plot on one such PC, it would have taken about 75 minutes. I ran it at home on a Pentium III 800 Mhz and it took about 220 minutes. I also ran it on an old Pen...