There are tons of controllers, but what about the system!?

Nice, thanks for the new pictures. I remember seeing these and being interested. Please keep us posted on any progress. I'll be following this.

 

Ditto.

 

Unless there is more hardware than you've shown, I don't think you will be able to get it to do anything.

Two things that stick out from these photos are the boot screen on the Geode boards, which seem to be attempting to netboot, which means that the system needs a DHCP/BOOTP server somewhere. On top of this, I'm pretty sure that those Gateway 64 boards downloaded over SCSI, and I can't see any SCSI host adapters anywhere.

This suggests that it needs at least one - and possibly two - additional servers from the equipment in these photos. These could be completely ordinary looking PCs, though.