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Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster

You're reading from   Building a BeagleBone Black Super Cluster Build and configure your own parallel computing Beowulf cluster using BeagleBone Black ARM systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783989447
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andreas J Reichel Andreas J Reichel
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The Linux host environment


The Linux host environment provides you with a basic platform for the easy creation of installation images. Actually, it is not necessary to use Linux. and you can also create bootable microSD cards from within other operating systems. However, creating the master installation image on the microSD card won't be different compared to copying the installation image onto the nodes' internal eMMC memory. Thus, for the sake of simplicity, a Linux environment is highly recommended. Another point of view is that Linux only does what you tell it to do. If you tell it to overwrite every single byte on the card with the contents of a binary file, it will do so, and the command is very simple. On Windows, you need very specialized software for such a task.

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