Learn about administrating an HPC cluster and remember many basics about servers and other equipment.

• Review theoretic principles such as hardware components, networking, boot process, monitoring, cluster management, and user management.
• Summarize Linux network configuration, and investigate NFS, virtualisation and cooling options
• Describe cluster management with specific tools and investigate workload managers, different types of images as well as deployment, monitoring and IPMI
• Classify software stacks and review installing of software, containers and software containerisation, as well as user installs
• Identify Snakemake's capabilities for configuring its behaviour across a cluster environment and configure a cluster-wide configuration

• ADM1 Theoretic Principles
• ADM2 Cluster Infrastructure
• ADM3 Cluster Management
• ADM4 Software Stack
• ADM5 Workflow Management Systems - Snakemake