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。

        Michael Creel has announced the release of PelicanHPC 1.8, a Debian-based live CD image with a goal to make it simple to set up a high-performance computing cluster: "PelicanHPC v1.8 is released." What's new? "The make_pelican script supports USB disk image as well as ISO; added dialogs for setting password and allowing use of permanent storage; add binary blobs for closed-source network cards; add locales, console-common and packages for mail; add a couple of symbolic links to support software compiled using older versions of OpenMPI; tutorial updated." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement and to learn about the distribution's features. Download from here: pelicanhpc-v1.8_32bit.iso (386MB), MD5, torrent), pelicanhpc-v1.8_64bit.iso (400MB), MD5, torrent).（责任编辑：A6）