Chapter 7.  Configuring the Eight Nodes

This chapter discusses how to configure the eight or sixteen nodes in your Pi supercomputer. The process involves editing the fstab, rc.local, and hosts files. Additionally, you will be instructed on how to format the slave SD cards using the SD formatter for Windows applications and how to copy the slave1 SD card image, using the win32 Disk Imager application, to the remaining formatted slave SD cards.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • How to edit the fstab file on the slave1 node to set up an automatic mount command
  • How to edit the boot up script rc.local file on the slave1 node for automatically mounting the export drive MPI code folder
  • How to edit the hosts file on the master node and slave1 node to reflect, ...

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