The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.5.3. This is a minor build and bugfix release in the 1.5 tree and can be used to non-destructively update all the previous 1.5 releases. Major changes include:

• Feature: Ability to populate the master's /etc/hosts
• Bug fix: rc.perceus in initramfs was exiting out leaving a shell prompt
• Bug fix: Fix some registration issues causing retries
• Feature: Add an ssh-keygen wrapper to create node keys for users automatically
• Feature: Add some more logic to the chroot2stateless.sh for automatic configurations
• Feature: Add perceus-init script to ease first time initialization
• Bug fix: Ability to address nodes by their MAC address ("-i" switch)
• Bug fix: Module deactivation bug

Haven't you heard, stateless is the new green!

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.5.2. This is a minor build and bugfix release in the 1.5 tree and can be used to non-destructively update all the previous 1.5 releases. Major changes include:

• Bug fix: Don't delete files on livesync update
• Bug fix: Fixed some xget and xcpu linking issues
• Bug fix: Properly specify the master IP at the node kernel's command line
• Doc fix: Fix some of the documentation for the 'ipaddr' Perceus module

Got a minute? That is all it takes to provision over 1000 nodes from bare metal!

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.5.1. This is a minor build and bugfix release in the 1.5 tree and can be used to non-destructively update all the previous 1.5 releases. Major changes include:

• Bug fix: API fixup for node_add() on insert_ethers and imoprt-isc-dhcpd
• Bug fix: Minor error/warning verbiage cleanups
• Bug fix/feature enhancement: ipaddr Perceus module has been supersized
• Bug fix: Don't included extra file sytems when unmounting
• Bug fix: Don't delete extra files on livesync
• Bug fix/feature enhancement: Various changes to the registration code
• Bug fix/feature enhancement: Always create DB's if they don't exist and check on startup
• Bug fix: Update xcpu
• Workaround: Weird EHCI hangs
• Feature enhancement: Added boot option for increased debugging
• Feature enhancement: Update default CGI theme

Now go and boot lots of nodes.

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.5.0. This is the first major release in the 1.5 tree and introduces some new features:

• Web control interface for manipulating the node configuration
• Graphical PXE boot menu for boot selection (Perceus or local media)
• Capability to "Provision from the Cloud"
• Capability to multiboot operating systems including locally installed Windows
• Perceus module fixups and capability enhancements
• Various cleanups and optimizations

The database formats have not changed, so this version can be used to non-destructively update the previous 1.4 tree.

Enjoy.

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.4.4. This is a minor build and bugfix release in the 1.4 tree and can be used to non-destructively update all the previous 1.4 releases. Major changes include: * Some minor bug-fixes to the Perceus daemon * Use NFS as default while xget stabilizes (still avail, just not default option) * Fixed linking error of libz into kexec-legacy * Set hostname in the xcpu module Have fun,... but not too much fun. Its supposed to be work, remember?

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.4.3. This is a minor build and bugfix release in the 1.4 tree and can be used to non-destructively update the previous 1.4.2 release. Major changes include: * When a node checks in that has no hostname, don't provision it * Several bugfixes in XGET and don't cross mount points (e.g. /proc) * Cleaned initramfs tree further Mmmmmmmmm.

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.4.2. This is a minor build and bugfix release in the 1.4 tree and can be used to non-destructively update the previous 1.4.1 release. Major changes include: * Capitalize NodeIDs * Fix perceusd connecting to the wrong local device under some conditions * Update DHCP/DNS and XCPU * Some config and code cleanups * Major enhancements to the ipaddr Perceus module * Perceus node delete fix * Perceus node add fix * Perceus vnfs rebuild fix * Init script fixes * Minor command line usage fixups Enjoy.

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.4.1. This is a minor build and bugfix release in the 1.4 tree and can be used to non-destructively update the previous 1.4.0 release. Enjoy.

The Infiscale team is happy to make public the grand release of Perceus 1.4.0! This is the first release in the 1.4 series and undergoes a lot of changes. The primary focus of this release is scalability and ease of use. Non-specific major changes include:

• Pre-forking Perceus daemon, able to scale to thousands of nodes.
• Scalable VNFS transfer mechanism using XGET
• Rewrite of the back end database subsystem. Now it can utilize Hash, Btree, and MySQL. Other options are now possible (e.g. flat text configuration file like Warewulf used, other databases structures like the ones used in Oscar, Rocks, xCat, etc...)
• Stage one bootstrap OS has been reworked to support more types of installs, hardware, and reliability.
• Extensions to the "ipaddr" module so that it is much more capable of doing all IP addressing: static, dynamic and automatic based on probing /etc/hosts.
• New Perceus module for XCPU support right from the Perceus stage one bootstrap OS.
• Slaves (via Perceus node client daemon) now capable of load balancing and fail over between Perceus masters.
• General fixups, cleanups, code design, optimizing based on profiling, etc..

This release contains many changes so please report bugs, issues and concerns as soon as possible to help it mature quickly.

Thank you.

The Infiscale team.

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.3.8. This is a minor bugfix and feature release in the 1.3 tree and can be used to non-destructively update any of the previous 1.3 releases. Changes include:

• Daemon overflow potential fixup
• User guide cleanups
• Minor "hostname" Perceus module bug fix
• Minor "modprobe" Perceus module bug fix
• Typo fix in chroot2stateless.sh
• Bug where "vnfs list" showed extraneous "stuff"
• If there are no devices defined in a private network, default to eth0 during initialization

among others!

Enjoy!

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.3.7. This is a minor bugfix and feature release in the 1.3 tree and can be used to non-destructively update any of the previous 1.3 releases. Changes include:

• Better integration with SLURM
• Backported SLURM Perceus module from the 1.4 devel tree
• Fixed bogus warnings
• Updated DHCP and IB integration for better RFC compliance
• Fixed some of the hw_unload debugging
• Updated users guide
• Updated chroot generation scripts
• Fixed some bash_completion features
• Enabled HIGH_MEM in the 32 bit kernel
• Fixed minor hybridization bug

among others!

Enjoy!

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.3.6. This is a minor bugfix release in the 1.3 tree and can be used to non-destructively update any of the previous 1.3 releases. Changes include:

• Removed default hybridization for /usr/local as it is the default install location when compiling by hand.
• Fixed a trivial DOS of the Perceus daemon.
• Fixed VNFS export.

...among others...

Enjoy!

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.3.5. This is a bugfix release in the 1.3 tree and can be used to non-destructively update any of the previous 1.3 releases. Changes include:

• Minor documentation fix ups
• Fixed GPG check error on VNFS chroot creation (applies to RHEL rebuilds only)
• Minor bug fix in support contact request
• Update the node's provisionary state when shutting down
• Minor taint checking fixups
• Fixed provisond's max tries logic a bit
• Enabled serial port redirect to console in default kernel config (not active unless directly specified)

Enjoy!

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.3.4. This is a bugfix release in the 1.3 tree and can be used to non-destructively update any of the previous 1.3 releases.

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.3.3. This is a minor bugfix of the initialization portions of the previous release. It affects all operating systems except for Caos NSA Linux (our primary development and testing platform).

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.3.2. This is a minor bugfix and cleanup update to 1.3.1. Changes include but are not limited to:

• Fixing of some taint errors
• Fixed vnfs exporting nomenclature bug
• Cleaned error messages due to improper usage
• Node number space fixups
• Removed deprecated options
• Catch and log some nodescript run errors

The Infiscale team is happy to announce the release of Perceus 1.3.1. This is an update to the 1.3 compatibility tree including (but not limited to) the following changes:

• Included Scientific Linux genchroot capsule scripts
• Added masterauth Perceus module
• Created provisiond sub package and init scripts
• Code cleanup including taint checking
• Fixed various bugs and implementation details
• Cleaned command outputs
• Gentoo compatibility updates
• Wrote and included the freely available Perceus users guide
• make dist compatibility now integrated
• VNFS export feature added

Also don't forget to check out the new documentation and users guide for Perceus!

Enjoy. :)

This is the first release of the 1.3 tree. It includes LOTS of fixes and updates including:

• Enabled much more robust provisioning mechanisms
• Updated the included kernel to 2.6.21
• More configurable build mechanisms
• Lots of fixups to provisiond
• Now can provision over InfiniBand
• Various "detect" updates including moving detect into primary Perceus tree
• Abstracted out several critical functions for nodescripts
• Fixed for RH's new _FORTIFY_SOURCE build option
• Lots of chroot2stateless.sh updates
• Prepared for chroot2stateful.sh (still under testing)
• Wrote the first version of the Perceus man page
• Lots of other fixups, cleanups and features.

Enjoy. :)

I just posted release 1.2.1. This is a minor bug fix release over 1.2.0. All fixes are basically cosmetic except some minor build issues.