This chapter discusses how to configure the eight or sixteen nodes in your Pi supercomputer. The process involves editing the fstab
, rc.local
, and hosts
files. Additionally, you will be instructed on how to format the slave SD cards using the SD formatter for Windows applications and how to copy the slave1 SD card image, using the win32 Disk Imager application, to the remaining formatted slave SD cards.
In this chapter, you will learn:
How to edit the
fstab
file on the slave1 node to set up an automatic mount commandHow to edit the boot up script
rc.local
file on the slave1 node for automatically mounting the export drive MPI code folderHow to edit the
hosts
file on the master node and slave1 node to reflect, temporarily, the IP address and hostnames of the remaining six or fourteen slave nodesHow to use the SD formatter for Windows applications to format the remaining slave SD cards
How to use the win32 Disk Imager to copy the image of the Slave1...