DRBL provides diskless or systemless environment. It uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning utility similar to Ghost.
Roomy is a programming language extension for writing parallel disk-based applications. All details of parallelism and disk I/O are hidden within the Roomy library.
Personal supercomputer on a disk! The Science by FlashMob project creates specialized live booting CDs that create a single user supercomputer from a set of handy laptop or desktop machines. Suitable for MPI, CHARM++, and pyMPI parallel programs.
Overfoldix is a distribution of Linux designed to boot off of a CD and run in a ramdisk, not requiring a Hard Disk Drive. This linux distro is used to help out in the Folding@Home distributed computing project. This is a \'better\' OS for Folding@Home