I am one of the lead developers for the Bootable Cluster CD ([login to view URL]) and the LittleFe project, [login to view URL] (little fe is a play on the "Big Iron" supercomputers - Little Fe is the Little "Iron" as Fe is the chemical symbol for iron).
I can assist you in setting up AND DOCUMENTING everything
This includes:
*) LDAP authentication with PAM support (Will you need Active Directory support?)
*) ssh-keys for remote access to nodes once jobs have been scheduled.
*) maui / torque or similar job scheduler on the research cluster
*) Condor scheduling (will you be including open labs in your HTCondor pool?)
*) qsub management
*) installation of MPICH, OpenMPI, Are you to use OpenMP?
*) Any CUDA on the nodes? Then installation of NVidia's nvcc and tools
*) Will you use the Intel high performance compilers?
*) Will you be using InfiniBand on the research cluster? I can help set up that, too.
If you'd like more information, please let me know.