entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

I think interesting names for individual boxes is good, but for clusters I like to give the cluster as a whole the interesting name and number the boxes within it. For example, we have individual boxes canvas (admin/install/cvs server, last remnant of our colours naming scheme) and otanes (backup server, consort of cyrus), and clusters ppswitch (hasn't run pp for nine years) and cyrus (guess).