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Index
Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster
Table of Contents
Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. BeagleBone Black System Board
Introducing the hardware
The central processing unit
I/O interfaces and control buttons
The onboard memory and flash storage
The storage memory partition structure
The boot-selection button
Recovering a boot failure
Operating systems
ARMhf images
The Ubuntu 12.04 ARMhf Linux system
Software programming
The open source philosophy
Software modularity and dependencies
The source code and programming languages
Low-level programming
High-level programming
The compiler toolchain
Summary
2. Building a Beowulf Cluster
Minimal configuration and optional equipment
Minimal configuration
Using a USB keyboard
Using the HDMI adapter and monitor
Building a scalable board-mounting system
Board-holding rods
Board spacers
Cooling system
Using a low-cost power source
Power requirements
Power cables
Modifying the ATX power supply
Setting up the network backbone
The network topology
The RJ45 network cables
The Ethernet multiport switch
The storage memory
Installing images on microSD cards
The swap space on an SD card
The external network storage
Summary
3. Operating System Setup and Configuration
The Linux host environment
Creating the master node's installation image
Bootable SD cards and partition tables
Downloading Ubuntu for ARM
Writing the installation image to the microSD card
Adapting the image size to the card space
Installing the operating system on the master node
Configuring the network interface
Flashing the internal eMMC
The external network storage
Installing and configuring the slave nodes
Creating the slave node's installation image
Configuring the slave node's network interface
Flashing the internal eMMC
Creating SSH login keys
A crash course in developing applications
Installing development tools
First test program
Transferring files from and to the BeagleBone master node
The FTP server
File transfer with WinSCP
Summary
4. Parallel Computing with OpenMPI and ScaLAPACK
MPI – Message Passing Interface
The process control
The software structure
Installing and configuring OpenMPI
Downloading and installing OpenMPI packages
Configuring the default hostfile
Creating a test application
Simple node synchronization
Passing values between nodes
ScaLAPACK and linear mathematical problems
Installing and configuring ScaLAPACK
Solving a positive symmetric tridiagonal system with ScaLAPACK
Understanding the code
Understanding the mathematics behind the code
Summary
5. Advanced Solving of General Equation Systems
PETSc – a toolkit for scientific computation
Installing graphical libraries
Downloading and configuring PETSc
Compiling PETSc
Installing PETSc on your cluster nodes
PETSc example programs
Compiling and running PETSc programs
Simple vector math
Solving linear equations with SuperLU_DIST
Direct solvers versus iterative solvers
Solving nonlinear equations with SNES
SLEPc – a library for Eigenvalue problems
Downloading and configuring SLEPc
Compiling SLEPc
A SLEPc example program
Compiling a SLEPc program
Demonstrating the cluster's scaling ability
Summary
6. Scientific and Technological Examples of Parallel Computing
Calculations on cloud-distributed mesh grids
The triangulation of a body mesh
Finite elements
A practical example – the temperature gradient
deal.II – a powerful Physics calculation library
Obtaining deal.II
Configuring deal.II
Building deal.II
Example programs
Using makefiles
First deal.II example – triangulation
Explaining the code
Dimensional independent code
Iterative triangulation refinement
Parallel solution of elastic equations
The visualization of calculated data
Summary
A. References
Index
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