Chris Samuel is the VPAC Systems Manager, responsible for the systems team who manage the HPC clusters, networks and infrastructure at VPAC. Chris also acts as a VPAC consultant to academia and industry on HPC deployments. Chris holds a degree in Physics with Planetary and Space Physics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and migrated to Australia after 7 years in a UK research laboratory working both as a systems administrator and as an IT security & forensics expert.