Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster (summer 2025)

What could be a better way to understand how an HPC cluster is built than building one yourself?

We throw dozens of Raspberry Pis, Cables, SD-cards and stuff on a big table and see what happens.

At the end of the workshop you will have assembled a basic cluster, configured the network, and run the first MPI application on it, just like on one of its bigger siblings like Bonna, Bender or Marvin.

Topics:
- Setting up the operating system
- Configuring the network
- Creating user accounts
- Installing Software
- Synchronization of system time
- Mounting a file system
- Setting up and starting the SLURM scheduler
- Running MPI jobs

Basic knowledge of the Linux/Unix shell is needed.

Registration happens via eCampus. Simply join this course like any other eCampus course.

Important: After registering, you MUST join one of the groups in order to attend the corresponding course.