Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Clusters, Parallel Computing, and Raspberry Pi
A Brief Background; A very short history of parallel computing; Supercomputers; Multi-core and multiprocessor machines; Commodity hardware clusters; Cloud computing; Big data; Raspberry Pi and parallel computing; Programming languages and frameworks; Summary; Chapter 2: Setting up your Raspberry Pi Software and Hardware for Parallel Computing; Setting up our work environment.

HDMI-capable monitor or VGA/DVI monitor and adapterUSB keyboard and mouse; Two micro-USB power units; A desk-mounted power strip with both USB and mains outlets (optional); Three Ethernet/RJ45 network cables; A small network switch; An existing Internet connection; Two SD cards that are compatible with the Raspberry Pi; Housing units for the Raspberry Pi boards and Lego (optional); USB hard drives (optional); Future expansion and a scalable setup; Completing the initial setup; Using an SD card as our Raspberry Pi's storage device; SD card setup; Formatting our card.

Mac OS X SD card formatting instructionsWindows 8 SD card formatting instructions; Linux instructions for SD card formatting; BerryBoot version 2; Downloading the BerryBoot version 2 ZIP file; Mac OS X; Windows 8; Linux; Starting up the Raspberry Pi; The installation process; Installation complete; Testing SSH and setting up keys; Connecting via SSH; Mac OS X and Linux users; Windows 8 users with PuTTY; Setting up your SSH RSA keys; The ssh-agent and ssh-add tools; SSH setup complete; Wrapping up; Editing text files on Raspbian; Installing Fortran; Terminal multiplexing with Screen; Summary.

Chapter 3: Parallel Computing
MPI on the Raspberry PiMPI
Message Passing Interface; MPI implementations
MPICH and OpenMPI; Creating an environment and downloading MPICH; Building and installing MPICH; Configuring your Raspberry Pi to run with MPICH; Testing our MPICH installation; Building our second Raspberry Pi; Windows 8; Mac OS X; Linux; Powering up the second Raspberry Pi; RSA key setup for SSH; Writing an MPI-based application; MPI
point-to-point communication; Summary; Chapter 4: Hadoop
Distributed Applications on the Raspberry Pi; A brief introduction to Apache Hadoop.

Installing JavaInstalling Apache Hadoop; Hadoop configuration; Testing our Hadoop server; Setting up our second Raspberry Pi; Summary; Chapter 5: MapReduce Applications with Hadoop and Java; MapReduce; MapReduce in Hadoop; HDFS
The Hadoop distributed file system; The WordCount MapReduce program; Testing our application; Summary; Chapter 6: Calculate Pi with Hadoop and MPI; Monte Carlo simulators; A Hadoop application to calculate Pi; Pi with C and MPI; Summary; Chapter 7: Going Further; Booting from an external USB HDD; Building a Lego enclosure; Experimenting with MPI and Fortran.