Open Source
Performance Co-Pilot News

1 September 2008 First stable Perl PMDA API version incorporated into development snapshot 2.7.4-20081001. This includes several additional agents using this infrastructure - mysql, systemtap, dbping, memcache.
6 March 2007 First stable version of kmchart (1.0) is released.
6 March 2007 First upload of PCP and kmchart packages to the Debian archives.
21 November 2007 First release candidate images for kmchart 1.0 made available.
7 September 2007 PCP 2.7.4 (Open Source) released, see change log for details.
11 May 2007 PCP 2.7.1 (Open Source) released.
2 January 2006 Initial kmchart source release.
1 December 2005 PCP 2.5.0 (Open Source) released.
5 August 2004 PCP 2.4.0 (Open Source) released.
6 October 2003 PCP 2.3.2 (Open Source) released.
16 July 2003 PCP 2.3.1 (Open Source) released.
2 April 2003 PCP 2.3.0 (Open Source) released.
February 2003 Alan Hoyt contributed portablility changes to enable building the PCP infrastructure on Solaris. Alan has also started on a Solaris platform PMDA and some new GUI based tools.
December 2002 SGI releases open source version of the PCP Quality Assurance Suite
December 2002 Mike Mason contributes code for a large number of new metrics, enough to support libgtop.
October 2002 Todd Davis announces that Intel Telco Software Program Development Team adopts PCP in the Carrier Grade Linux Enhancements
11 December 2001 PCP 2.2.2 (Open Source) released
21 June 2001 PCP 2.2.1 (Open Source) released with important security fixes.
31 May 2001 PCP 2.2.0 (Open Source) released
27 March 2001 PCP 2.2.0 (IRIX version) released
7 November 2000 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases updated PCPMON package, with improved archive support, screen-shot saving (in PNG format), command-line mode, and numerous bug fixes.
20 October 2000 PCP 2.1.10 (Open Source) released
14 June 2000 PCP 2.1.7 (Open Source) released
9 June 2000 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases updated PCPMON package, with support for PCP archives
22 May 2000 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases updated MySQL PMDA, adding processlist metrics, supporting MySQL versions 3.21.x - 3.23.x
18 May 2000 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases initial MySQL PMDA, exporting MySQL server status and configuration variables.
10 May 2000 Troy Dawson (dawson@fnal.gov) and Ray Pasetes make Linux CPU "hinv" metrics' source available, Mark integrates into Linux PMDA.
16 April 2000 Luc Stepniewski (lstep@free.fr) makes initial Debian PCP package available
10 April 2000 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases PCPMON 1.0.1, a graphical PCP monitor using GTK.
14 March 2000 Eric Roman (eroman@lbl.gov) ports PCP 2.1.4 to RedHat 6.0 for the Alpha platform.
11 February 2000 PCP 2.1.4 (Open Source) released
2 February 2000 PCP features in LinuxWorld at New York, including bundling of PCP-based performance monitoring in SGI's ISE (internet serving ) and ACE (HPC clusters) solutions
1 February 2000 PCPHPC 1.0 (IRIX) released with support for monitoring of DMF, HIPPI and MPI activity (calls, time and messages in MPI library)
7 December 1999 First Open Source release, PCP 2.1.1
15 November 1999 PCP featured showing performance of SGI's IRIX and Linux clusters running real applications at Supercomputing '99, Portland.
1 September 1999 Prototype PCP for Linux demo at Interact + PCIT (with Linux Users of Victoria), Melbourne, Australia
10 Aug 1999 PCP 2.1 (IRIX) released
8 August 1999 Prototype PCP for Linux demo at LinuxWorld, San Jose, CA
8 August 1999 Prototype PCP for Linux demo at SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA
9 July 1999 Prototype PCP for Linux demo and talk at Conference of Australian Linux Users, Melbourne, Australia
15 May 1999 Prototype PCP for Linux demo at LinuxExpo, Raleigh, NC
21 July 1998 PCP for Webservers 2.0 (IRIX) released
31 March 1998 PCP 2.0 (IRIX) released