In this chapter we set up our work area and hardware for building our parallel computing system using Raspberry Pi. We then formatted our SD card and installed BerryBoot version 2 or NOOBS. This subsequently allowed us to set up our Master Raspberry Pi device. Finally we tested our SSH service running on the Raspberry Pi and created an SSH public and private key pair.
Next we will install MPICH, set up our second Raspberry Pi, test our SSH keys, and try out a parallel application that runs on both of our Raspberry Pi's.