Bright Computing

Bright Computing is a leading global provider of hardware-agnostic cluster and cloud management software. Bright Cluster Manager™, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data™, and Bright OpenStack™ provide a unified approach to installing, provisioning, configuring, managing, and monitoring HPC clusters, big data clusters, and OpenStack clouds.

Bright’s products are currently deployed in more than 650 data centers around the world and its customer base includes global academic, governmental, financial, healthcare, manufacturing, oil/gas/energy, and pharmaceutical organizations such as Boeing, Intel, NASA, Stanford University, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Bright partners with Advanced HPC to deliver powerful, integrated solutions for managing advanced IT infrastructure including high performance computing clusters and big data clusters.

Bright provides a unified enterprise-grade solution for provisioning, scheduling, monitoring and management of HPC and Big Data systems in data centers and in the cloud. Its dynamic cloud provisioning optimizes cloud utilization by automatically creating servers when they are needed and releasing them when they are not.

Bright Cluster Manager for HPC enables customers to deploy complete clusters over bare metal and manage them effectively. It provides single-pane-of-glass management for the hardware, the operating system, HPC software, and users.

Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data enables customers to deploy complete big data clusters over bare metal and manage them effectively; keep them running reliably throughout their lifecycle — all with the ease and elegance of a fully featured, enterprise-grade cluster manager.

Bright OpenStack makes it easy to deploy, provision, and manage a customer’s OpenStack-based private cloud infrastructure. It provides headache-free deployment on bare metal, advanced monitoring and management tools, and dynamic health-checking, all in one powerful, intuitive package.

Bright Computing is ideal for:

• university researchers
• customers seeking any of the following or a combination of:
  • enterprise-grade solutions
  • ease of management
  • integration with parallel file system provider, BeeGFS (key feature of Bright Cluster Manager™ 8.0 and Bright OpenStack™ 8.0)

In addition to having the experience and expertise to architect a complete turnkey solution, Advanced HPC is very knowledgeable about BeeGFS parallel file system deployment and, therefore, is well positioned to help customers take full advantage of the Bright Computing-BeeGFS synergy via Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 and Bright OpenStack 8.0.