PelicanHPC是基于
Debian的自启动
运行光盘镜像，其宗旨是简化高性能计算集群的
安装。其前端节点（或者是真实的
计算机，或者是
虚拟机）直接从该镜像引导。计算节点则依靠预执行环境（PXE）来启动，它们以前端节点为
服务器。集群的所有节点都从相同的光盘镜像获取它们的
文件系统，因此，所有的节点都
运行相同的
软件。该光盘镜像通过
运行一份单独的脚本创建而得，这也使得可以基于额外的
Debian软件包来定制该自启动
运行光盘镜像。
PelicanHPC GNU
Linux isa new name of what used to be known as ParallelKnoppix, a live CDproject with a goal to
make it simple to set up a high performancecomputing cluster. Now based on Debian GNU/
Linux (rather than KNOPPIX),the project has announced the release of PelicanHPC 1.3. From thechangelog: "
make_pelican allows a password to bespecified, the default is still 'live';
make_pelican allows you tospecify a storage device to mount as /home, the default is still to usea ramdisk; the setup routine has been greatly improved. At this point,I think that Pelican is in good shape. I am not planning on making morereleases until several months from now, unless some important bugsurfaces." Visit the project's
home page to read the release announcement. The CD images are available for
download via BitTorrent:
pelican32-v1.3.iso (345MB),
pelican64-v1.3.iso (357MB).
