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PicoCluster Application Image Set

What is the PicoCluster Application Image Set?

The PicoCluster Application Image Set is a basic cluster setup designed to get the PicoCluster user up and running quickly. It is the Image Set that will be pre-configured with any PicoCluster Cube or Kit that is ordered with memory cards. All other Application or Cluster Images Sets are based upon this one.

Screen shot of the PicoCluster desktop

 

It consists of the following:

  • PicoCluster desktop background
  • Pre-configured hosts file for all nodes
  • Static IP addressing for all nodes
  • WI-FI DHCP unconfigured for all nodes so as to not interfere with static addressing if connected to DHCP capable network
  • Pre-configured SSH keys for easy and quick administering of all nodes.
  • Helper scripts to stop, restart, and test all nodes.
  • Pre-installed Pimoroni Blink! LED library (Raspberry PI only)

Connecting to your new cluster
You can either use PicoCluster as a desktop cluster by plugging in a mouse, keyboard, and monitor, or use it as a network cluster by connecting via SSH.

The default username is picocluster with password picocluster.

If you choose to connect over the network, the default IP address if pc0 is 10.1.10.240.

This is the default node layout for a Pico 5. This can be easily changed by editing the hosts file on each node in the cluster.

10.1.10.240    pc0
10.1.10.241    pc1
10.1.10.242    pc2
10.1.10.243    pc3
10.1.10.244    pc4

Looking around:

picocluster@pc0:~ $ ls
Desktop    Downloads   Music                       Pictures  Public              stopAllNodes.sh  testAllNodes.sh
Documents  genKeys.sh  PicoCluster_Background.png  Pimoroni  restartAllNodes.sh  Templates        Videos

We see 3 shells scripts here to make this a little easier for us.

restartAllNodes.sh is used to restart all of the nodes in the cluster.

stopAllNodes.sh is used to stop or shut down all of the nodes in the cluster. You would normally run this script before disconnecting power to PicoCluster. Simply pulling power from PicoCluster runs a high risk of corrupting the micro SD cards on one or more of the nodes.

testAllNodes.sh does a simple df -h on each node to indicate that each node is up and running.

picocluster@pc0:~ $ sh testAllNodes.sh 
testing pc4
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        15G  3.3G   11G  24% /
devtmpfs        459M     0  459M   0% /dev
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           463M  6.3M  457M   2% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1   63M   21M   43M  33% /boot
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/109
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1001
testing pc3
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        15G  3.3G   11G  24% /
devtmpfs        459M     0  459M   0% /dev
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           463M  6.3M  457M   2% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1   63M   21M   43M  33% /boot
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/109
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1001
testing pc2
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        15G  3.3G   11G  24% /
devtmpfs        459M     0  459M   0% /dev
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           463M  6.3M  457M   2% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1   63M   21M   43M  33% /boot
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/109
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1001
testing pc1
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        15G  3.3G   11G  24% /
devtmpfs        459M     0  459M   0% /dev
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           463M  6.3M  457M   2% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1   63M   21M   43M  33% /boot
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/109
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1001
testing pc0
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        15G  3.4G   11G  24% /
devtmpfs        459M     0  459M   0% /dev
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           463M  6.4M  457M   2% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           463M     0  463M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1   63M   21M   43M  33% /boot
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/109
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1001
 

Where to go from here
Now that your cluster is up and running, the sky is the limit! There are hundreds of distributed and parallel applications and frameworks that you can run on PicoCluster from a simple Apache web server, to the most advanced distributed frameworks that can be run.

Look here for more information on Application and Cluster Image Sets,

Contact us at support@picocluster.com for questions.