Course Description:
Platform Cluster Manager (PCM) Configuration & Administration Virtual course is designed to provide the knowledge required to deploy and administer PCM in your working environment. You will gain a solid understanding of the PCM philosophy, how to install and manage PCM. You will get valuable experience with PCM installation, cluster configuration and administration, and learn how to take full advantage of the available highperformance
network interconnects on your clustered systems. You will also learn helpful hints and tips and
develop fundamental troubleshooting skills.

Who Should Attend:
Platform Cluster Manager Configuration & Administration Virtual course has been developed for system administrators and users who will be responsible for deploying a cluster with PCM.

Course Pre-requisite
Attendees should be familiar with UNIX/Linux, basic UNIX/Linux system administration experience and some exposure to Beowulf style clusters.

System Requirements:
Hardware
- Minimum configuration – Three(3) P4 64 bits Machines or higher with 4 GB of RAM, 40GB free space of HDD with Internet access

Course Materials:
All participants will receive a copy of the student training manual.

Course Content:
This course covers the following:

Concepts & Commands
- PCM Architecture
- PCM and Kusu concepts & terminology
- Node Group and compute node provisioning (Stateless and Stateful)
- Node group migration
- HPC concept and terminologies

Administration
- PCM installation
- PCM configuration, administration tools and commands
- Compute node provisioning
- PCM Management Console
- Troubleshooting