PelicanHPC GNU Linux v2.2 AMD64

Copied from PelicanHPC GNU Linux homepage (http://idea.uab.es/mcreel/ParallelKnoppix/):





PelicanHPC is a live CD image that let's you set up a high performance computing cluster in a few minutes. A Pelican cluster allows you to do parallel computing using MPI. You can run Pelican on a single multiple core machine to use all cores to solve a problem, or you can network multiple computers together to make a cluster. The frontend node (either a real computer or a virtual machine) boots from the CD image. The compute nodes boot by PXE, using the frontend node as the server. All of the nodes of the cluster get their filesystems from the same CD image, so it is guaranteed that all nodes run the the same software. Packages can be added to all nodes using apt-get, thanks to aufs. The CD image is created by running a single script, which takes advantage of the Debian Live infrastructure.  It is very easy to create a custom version with new packages installed in standard locations by adding package names to the script and then running it.

• Pelican is created using tools from the Debian Live project. To make your own version you only need live-build (also deboostrap and rsync) and the make_pelican script, which is provided below. All of this is also available on the PelicanHPC images, so you can build a custom version while running PelicanHPC.
• Contains the latest stable version of the OpenMPI implementation of MPI.
• Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available.
• Contains extensive example programs using GNU Octave. Also has the Linpack HPL benchmark.
• Pelican releases and all testing is done using the stable version of Debian GNU Linux as the base.

Changelog:





10 September 2010. Version 2.2 final release. This release has many new features, thanks to Robert G. Petry. The main new feature is a simple way to save the configuration across boots. This allows for full headless remote administration, and makes it considerably more convenient to use PelicanHPC to run a permanent cluster. New in this version:

•  ~/pelican_config file to allow for persistence, customization and headless boot. People interested in doing serious work with PelicanHPC are encouraged to examine this self-documented file
• autodetection of persistent frontend home
• autodetection of frontend and node local scratch space
• ability to run local scripts post boot and setup
• node beep after boot
• firewall
• automated node booting using wake-on-lan
• configuration of slots and optional frontend inclusion for mpi
• ganglia
• static IP assignment configurable using MAC addresses.
• node startup/shutdown script
• possibility to serve DHCP to machines that are not compute nodes
• python frontend for mpi software included (mpi4py)
• can now build PelicanHPC on PelicanHPC, using live-build
• added a couple of text editors, joe and nano

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