How To Build …

Building and Integrating Systems & Networks


Cluster Computing Part 1: Introduction

Cluster Computing Part 2: Hardware / Networking

Cluster Computing Part 3: Install a Job Scheduler

Cluster Computing Part 4: Open MPI

How to build a parallel computing cluster using a stack of single board computers and open source software, along with the Slurm job scheduler, and the Open MPI messages passing interface with examples in C, Python, and Java.


Wireless Access Point

How to build a private network Wireless Access Point (WAP) using a Raspberry Pi, including a DHCP Server (for assigning IP addresses), a Network Bridge (for connecting Wireless with Ethernet), and network access to services running on the Raspberry Pi from wireless clients.


Search (Part 1: Installing Solr Search)

How to build an Indexing and Search server using Apache Solr, including SolrCloud, basic authentication and security roles, and indexing rich documents (Word, PDF, HTML, etc).


Search (Part 2: Installing a ZooKeeper Cluster)

How to expand Solr Search to a multi-node cluster, including configuration management and fault tolerance.