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Build Supercomputers with Raspberry Pi 3

By : Carlos R. Morrison
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Build Supercomputers with Raspberry Pi 3

By: Carlos R. Morrison

Overview of this book

Author Carlos R. Morrison (Staff Scientist, NASA) will empower the uninitiated reader to quickly assemble and operate a Pi3 supercomputer in the shortest possible time. The lifeblood of a supercomputer, the MPI code, is introduced early, and sample MPI code provides additional practice opportunities for you to test the effectiveness of your creation. You will learn how to configure various nodes and switches so that they can effectively communicate with each other. By the end of this book, you will have successfully built a supercomputer and the various applications related to it.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Build Supercomputers with Raspberry Pi 3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
6
Creating a Mountable Drive on the Master Node

Using unrestrained MPI code logic


From here on, you can unleash the full power of your machine by simply commenting out the restraining outer for loop statement, as shown following in the code fragment. Most MPI codes you will write will not necessarily have the for loop coding format, but most of the exercises in this book will use this type of coding structure.

The code fragment will allow unrestrained processing:

// for(total_iter = 1; total_iter < n; total_iter++) ç comment this line 
{ 
  sum = 0.0; 
//     width = 1.0 / (double)total_iter; // width of a segment ç comment this 
                                                    line 
  width = 1.0 / (double)n; // width of a segment ç use this line 
//     for(i = rank + 1; i <= total_iter; i += numprocs) ç comment this line 
  for(i = rank + 1; i <= n; i += numprocs) ç use this line instead 
  { 
      x = width * ((double)i - 0.5); // x: distance to center of i(th) segment 
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