发行版发布：PelicanHPC GNU Linux 1.3

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).