Build Supercomputers with Raspberry Pi 3 (1 ed)

Build Supercomputers with Raspberry Pi 3

Key Features

• Carlos R. Morrison from NASA will teach you to build a supercomputer with Raspberry Pi 3.
• Deepen your understanding of setting up host nodes, configuring networks, and automating mountable drives.
• Learn various math, physics, and engineering applications to solve complex problems.

Book Description

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. After reading this book, you will have built a supercomputer and its applications.

What you will learn

• Understand the concept of the Message Passing Interface (MPI).
• Understand node networking.
• Configure nodes so that they can communicate with each other via the network switch.
• Build a Raspberry Pi 3 supercomputer.
• Test the supercluster
• Use the supercomputer to calculate MPI P codes.
• Learn various practical supercomputer applications.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Supercomputing
2. One-node supercomputing
3. Preparing the Initial Two Nodes
4. Static IP Address and Hosts File Setup
5. Creating a Common User for All Nodes
6. Creating a Mountable Drive on the Master Node
7. Configuring the Eight Nodes
8. Testing the Super Cluster
9. Real-world math applications
10. Real-world physics applications
11. Real-world engineering applications
12. Appendix