When existing admin tools just aren’t cutting it, you can write your own. We look at the excellent Bash scripting and Python programming languages.

We look at management tools and good management habits for Linux and proprietary storage solutions.

Commands and strategies to manage filesystems on Linux servers.

Manage storage by building software RAID with the Linux mdadm command.

Managing Linux storage servers with the Linux Logical Volume Manager.

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We look at how to label and partition proprietary and Linux storage servers for high-performance computing.

Where does your job data go? The answer is fairly straightforward, but I add some color by throwing in a little high-level background about what resource managers are doing and evolve the question to include a discussion of where data “should” or “could” go.

A basic question when getting into HPC is how to get data into and out of the cluster from local Linux and Windows machines.

I went to a summer camp for people whose Python environments went pear-shaped. Here is my class report.

Most of the time people turn to data compression to save storage space, but reducing precision can be a useful technique.