I'm very new to this idea of building a small cluster and I'm still waiting for the delivery of my first two Pis, an ethernet switch and some cabling. Would it be an advantage to install the Lite version of Raspbian for all but the head node? It sounds a bit grand to say all but the head node consid...

I haven't tried Java yet but managed to get the Fortran compiler downloaded and compiled a short program just to check and it was fine. Thanks for all the help, haven't been this excited about a computer for years!

Any idea how I can start programming with Java on my Raspberry Pi; I do not know where to start, how do I download the JDK and run it? Which OS do I need to use? Last time I wrote a program it was in Fortran77 (not counting VBA macros) so despite having a very mathematical mind I really do not know ...

Perhaps the solution is to upgrade to Windows 7? I am a novice when it comes to almost any IT task but I managed to download Win 32 Image Writer Version 0.0.0.4 and used it to write the Wheezy Raspbian img file onto a card and booted up the Pi for the first time without any problems. Windows was run...