// Section 14.1 · Operate
The CLI, in One Paragraph
1 min14.1Operate
parallelix-node is a small Node program that:
- Generates and protects a node secp256k1 key pair (a separate, low-value liveness key, never the staking wallet's key).
- Detects local hardware and maps it to a tier; confirms the Ollama inference runtime is up and a model is installed.
- Attaches the machine to a node already registered on-chain in
NodeRegistryLocker(bynodeId). - Sends signed liveness heartbeats to the coordinator every 10s; an
online node is what
OperatorStakeRewardsV2streams rewards to. - Polls the coordinator for dispatched inference requests, runs each whole on the local GPU/CPU through Ollama, and returns the result with a Proof-of-Execution commitment.
- Optionally installs itself as a background service (systemd or launchd) so it runs 24/7, survives reboot, and auto-restarts.
Staking, claiming rewards, and unstaking are on-chain wallet actions
done in the Operator Console (registerNode, claim,
requestUnstake, cancelUnstake, withdrawStake), not CLI
subcommands. The CLI is the off-chain half: it attaches a machine to a
node the wallet already staked and keeps it online. The two halves share
only the nodeId.