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Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster

By : Andreas J Reichel

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Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster

4.5 (4)

By: Andreas J Reichel

Overview of this book

If you are a programmer, scientist, or someone interested in modern computer technology that goes beyond the typical PC, then this book will show you the outstanding possibilities of cluster computing with modern embedded systems based on ARM architecture. Whether you need a high-speed or low-cost scalable cluster for simulations or want to try something new, this book is the right guide for you.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. BeagleBone Black System Board

1. BeagleBone Black System Board

Introducing the hardware

The storage memory partition structure

The boot-selection button

Operating systems

Software programming

Summary

2. Building a Beowulf Cluster

2. Building a Beowulf Cluster

Minimal configuration and optional equipment

Building a scalable board-mounting system

Using a low-cost power source

Setting up the network backbone

The network topology

The storage memory

Summary

3. Operating System Setup and Configuration

3. Operating System Setup and Configuration

The Linux host environment

Creating the master node's installation image

Installing the operating system on the master node

The external network storage

Installing and configuring the slave nodes

A crash course in developing applications

Transferring files from and to the BeagleBone master node

Summary

4. Parallel Computing with OpenMPI and ScaLAPACK

4. Parallel Computing with OpenMPI and ScaLAPACK

MPI – Message Passing Interface

Installing and configuring OpenMPI

Installing and configuring ScaLAPACK

Summary

5. Advanced Solving of General Equation Systems

5. Advanced Solving of General Equation Systems

PETSc – a toolkit for scientific computation

SLEPc – a library for Eigenvalue problems

Summary

6. Scientific and Technological Examples of Parallel Computing

6. Scientific and Technological Examples of Parallel Computing

Calculations on cloud-distributed mesh grids

deal.II – a powerful Physics calculation library

Example programs

Parallel solution of elastic equations

The visualization of calculated data

Summary

A. References

A. References

Index

Index

Appendix A. References

The operating system used with the BeagleBone Black boards is Ubuntu Linux for ARM:

For all downloads of BeagleBone Black, visit http://www.armhf.com/download/
To download BeagleBone for Ubuntu Precise 12.04.4 LTS, visit http://www.armhf.com/boards/beaglebone-black/#precise

The following links provide access to the third-party software used in this book, which is not part of the used Linux distribution:

To download Putty SSH Client, visit http://www.putty.org
To download the Network shared storage, visit www.samba.org
To download the Windows secure copy protocol software, visit http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
To download ScaLAPACK, visit http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/#_scalapack_version_2_0_2
To download the ScaLAPACK installer, visit http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/scalapack_installer.tgz
To download the ScaLAPACK pdpttr example, visit http://acts.nersc.gov/scalapack/hands-on/etc/pdpttr_2/pdpttr_2.c.html
To download PETSc, visit http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc...

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