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Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster

By : Andreas J Reichel
Book Image

Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster

By: Andreas J Reichel

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

A crash course in developing applications


The aim of this section is to provide you with a short crash course in programming on Linux operating systems. However, it is not possible to deal with this topic in all its glory. It takes years to get the hang of it and write good programs. However, this section tries to provide you with a basis you can build upon. If you want to get more detail on this topic, there is a lot of information on the Internet.

As you might not have developed applications previously, this section will give you a short introduction to this topic. As we have already seen in Chapter 1, BeagleBone Black System Board, in the Software programming section, there is a certain set of tools that have to be used with the source code in order to generate a binary file that can be executed—the actual program. Let's first see how this toolchain is actually installed.

Installing development tools

Now that we have our cluster system running the operating system and the basic network configuration...