[http://www.linux-mag.com Linux Magazine] today published [http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7239 an article] on building a cluster with Caos NSA and Perceus written by Jeff Layton. The article explains in a nutshell how to build a cluster in 23 minutes with explanations and examples along the way.

Join us at Linux World this year in Moscone Center August 4-7th! Infiscale will be in the .Org section in booth 17 demonstrating the latest Perceus 1.4 (including embedded via Intel Rapid Boot), Caos NSA, and some previews of cloud computing with Abstractual. We will also have some cool give-aways (including an Intel mini cluster: dual systems enclosed in a single enclosure) as well as guest vendor representatives.

This is an update as to what is happening with the 1.4 Perceus tree.

There has been a lot of focus on scalability (speed and handling of very large numbers of nodes), master node fault tolerance as well as a back-end rewrite allowing a much more abstract interface to the back-end database.

• Perceus usage news
• Super Computing 2007 exhibits – hot and heavy!
• Article about how Intel and Infiscale are using Perceus embedded to deliver what others promise.
• Want to help Infiscale? Now is the time!
• Caos NSA + Perceus = easiest HPC/Clustering Implementation EVER!

Perceus is quickly growing! We would like to thank everyone that has been evangelizing for us, as our installation numbers have been shooting through the roof! We love you guys! Thanks for everything!

Perceus 1.3 has been undergoing a lot of development! Releases come fast

Perceus: I have been very busy with Perceus-1.3 development. So far it is going very well yet there are so many code changes that we are also in heavy testing. The 1.3 tree is a big architectural enhancement over the previous versions thus this testing is very important.

Warewulf: In concurrent development is Warewulf-3 which will integrate into Perceus and other environments seamlessly. There are a bunch of new features going into Warewulf now which will make it a very capable all around yet scalable Linux monitoring solution.