Getting Started With Parallella (with Gotchas)

Course details

In this course, you'll learn how to program the Parallella-16 board, gain a basic understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of parallel programming, and take a look at a common parallel programming model used by Google for data analytics. You'll start by learning how to connect to the Parallella via the command line and SSH, before running some of the example programs that come preinstalled. We'll show you how the examples work and why they are well-suited for the Parallella, and then start writing our own programs in Python and C. All the code snippets, commands, and guides used in the lectures are available, making it easy to debug your programs or poke through the code to see how it works. The course will probably take about three hours (plus time to burn the SD card,) and by the end you'll be able to write simple programs on the Parallella and understand the tradeoffs that come with parallel programming.