Module 1: Install Cluster
• Describe HPCM features
• Define operating system slots
• Build cluster from ground up
• Provision node with GUI
• Provision node with command line
• Add nodes to the cluster
• Explore auto installation tools
Module 2: Discover
• Discover nodes
• Interpret cluster configuration files
• Review cluster services
Module 3: Data Networks
• Describe technologies
• Describe InfiniBand configuration
• Describe Intel Omni-Path configuration
• Describe software components
• Use diagnostic commands
Module 4: Manage Images
• Manage software repositories
• List software repositories
• Add software repositories
• Remove software repositories
• Create repository groups
• Customize an image by using RPM lists
• Create a compute node image
• Create an ICE-compute node image
• Manage image version control
• Check in an image into version control
• Compare differences between two versions of an image
• List the versions of an image
• Deploy a specific version of an image
• Push an ICE-compute image to a rack
• Use parallel tools and inbuilt functionality to check differences between nodes
• Enable hyperthreading
• Disable hyperthreading
• Configure array services
• Install batch scheduler server on a compute node
• Install batch scheduler client on a compute node and in ICE compute node
• Configure HPCM connectors to job schedulers
• Capture an image from a node (golden)
• Add RPMs to, remove RPMs from, and version control compute images
• Add and remove RPMs from running compute nodes
• Clone an ICE-compute image
• Clean up old images on the lead node
• Add RPMs to ICE compute image Compare when and when not to use tmpfs root
• Determine which nodes use tmpfs root
• Configure nodes to use tmpfs root
• List tmpfs quota difference (rack leader quotas do not apply when ICE-compute nodes are in tmpfs)
• Set tmpfs mode
• Set disk mode
• Show which mode a node has booted with
• Show which mode a node is scheduled to boot into
• Perform a clone operating system slot operation
Module 5: Automate Post Installation Tasks
• Review conf.d scripts
• Exclude a conf.d script
• Use pre_reconf.sh
• Use reconfig.sh
• Develop post install and per-host customization scripts
Module 6: Configure Shared Filesystem, User Accounts, Applications, and Updates
• NFS Export a filesystem on a compute node
• Mount an NFS filesystem and create a user on an ICE compute node
• Manage user accounts
• Synchronize UIDs and GIDs, LDAP, etc.
• Run an application on compute and ICE compute nodes
• Display BIOS settings
• Upgrade firmware
• Update kernel
• Update distribution
• Update HPCM