HPC Cluster planning workflow?

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After three days of intensive Google searching, I have not found any high-level workflow of how to build a low profile - cheap - computing cluster (we are not interested in HA yet). This is just a front-end plus a node for now.

We want to start small with rockscluster, provide a web-based server for offering services, and then add nodes as our budget increases. We're small company, so we haven't enough human resources to implement it smoothly. Here are some facts about our environment:

Our hardware is not constant (we will add nodes).
Our workload will vary (in the order from 200Mb - 1Tb)
Our software will change (scientific applications for data mining)

Do you know any visual workflow, worksheet, chart, describing the general necessary steps to begin our cluster planning?

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