In this paper, we present the creation process andthe purpose behind the Midnight cluster. It isdisguised as a computer laboratory during the day,but turns into a high performance compute clusterduring the night.The main focus of this paper is on the basic issueswith creating a part time compute cluster. TheMidnight cluster was constructed to serve both as aCPU harvester and as a platform for further studies.The main goal of our upcoming research is toev aluate different methods for handling shapechangeand process management on the cluster, andhow these factors affect running processes, stabilityand performance.