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Customer TestimonialsUniversidade do Vale do Paraíba “We were looking for a cluster management solution that would remove the complexity of managing our CPU/GPU cluster.” “We are researchers, not sys admins, and prefer to spend our time on science. We chose Bright because it’s efficient, easy to learn and use, and takes little of our time to get the most out of our HPC cluster. Further, we needed a solution that would easily scale as we expand our system.” “Bright’s unified environment is a big advantage for us.” — Dr. Irapuan Rodrigues professor of Physics at UNIVAP.Learn more Texas A&M University “HPC provides the backbone for our research” “We rely on Bright Cluster Manager as part of our larger HPC environment. Its easy to use and displays critical information such as dips in CPU performance in a graphically appealing interface. This allows us to always have critical information available.” — Rob Hetland, associate professor, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University.Learn more Boeing “Bright Cluster Manager’s rapid rebooting across nodes has reduced our node provisioning by a factor of ten, and it’s done with a few mouse-clicks.” — Greg Siekas, High Performance Computing Technical Lead at BoeingLearn more Boeing“This supports one of Boeing’s IT priorities to realize productivity gains by streamlining processes and tools to eliminate waste.” — Luis Gutierrez, Boeing ITI Global Data Center and Server Infrastructure DirectorLearn more 454 Life Sciences Roche “We are a longtime user of Bright Cluster Manager, and have benefited from its totally integrated approach and intuitive interface.” “We are excited about the possibility of using Bright to burst into the cloud and instantly increase compute power as and when required.” — Asya Shklyar at RocheLearn more Boise State University “Your support was excellent!” — Ken Blair, Boise State UniversityBoise State University“I'm really starting to like your product. It saves me many configuration man hours and simplifies run-time administration.” — Ken Blair, Boise State UniversityBoise State University“There is no way in hell I could run a one-man shop like this without Bright Cluster Manager.” — Ken Blair, Boise State UniversityDrexel “Bright Cluster Manager was a good choice for us. I’m a scientist, not a system manager.” “The Bright GUI is intuitive and extremely easy to use. I can do everything I need to do on the system remotely — I almost never visit our cluster. I get alerts when attention is required, and am able to hand off much of the overall system management with confidence to an enthusiastic undergraduate.” — Dr. Steve McMillan, Professor of Physics and Atmospheric Science, University of DrexelLearn more Bordeaux 1 “In the end Bright Computing's flexible user portal and its powerful cluster management software was an important part of our decision.” — Pierre Gay, Lead Systems Administrator, University Bordeaux 1Learn more DICE “Developed to meet the increasing demands of today's HPC data centers, Bright Cluster Manager provides the capacity, scalability and interoperability to centrally manage clusters over locally and widely distributed and heterogeneous HPC infrastructures.” — Roger Panton, Executive Director of the DICE programLearn more Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) “TACC always evaluates several vendors, and for this particular project Bright was the best choice.” “We were impressed with the Bright Cluster Manager demo at the SC09 conference and decided to make a detailed evaluation here at TACC. Our findings confirmed to us that Bright was what we needed: a powerful cluster management solution that is easy to use, flexible and very capable.” “Bright met our demanding requirements straight out of the box.” — Tommy Minyard, Director of Advanced Computing Systems at TACCLearn more Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)“The FutureGrid project calls for tremendous flexibility from the cluster management software. Aside from our own needs, we must meet the complex requirements of the FutureGrid community. For example, the Project calls for the ability to efficiently provision user-created software images for each experiment, without impairing productivity.” “Bright met this and all other challenges with ease.” — Dave Gignac, Operating Systems Specialist responsible for the FutureGrid cluster at TACCLearn more Goethe University Frankfurt “Our uniquely complex cluster represents a difficult management challenge, which is why we chose Bright Cluster Manager.” “We needed a solution we could trust, and Bright's proven success in managing complex systems combining x86 and GPU technologies won us over.” “We are thrilled with how Bright's comprehensive, yet easy-to-use solution helps us manage and control our very important supercomputer.” — Prof. Volker Lindenstruth, Chair for HPC Architecture at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced StudiesLearn more ING Corporate Investments “We have thoroughly evaluated both the company and its technology and have concluded that Bright is well-positioned to shake up its market and greatly extend its reach.” “I'm impressed by Bright's rapid success in the market. Many large research, academic and commercial organizations in the US and Europe are using Bright to manage their complex systems.” — Maarten Hopman, Head of Corporate Investments at INGLearn more University of Groningen “The Bright Cluster Manager software makes the management and monitoring of the cluster very efficient and easy, and it offers a clear insight into the status of the cluster at all times.” — Hans Gankema, Manager Server Infrastructure at the University of GroningenLearn more University of Frankfurt“We are pleased to run Bright Cluster Manager on the LOEWE-CSC system because it has already proven itself on another TOP500-class supercomputer at our university.” — Professor Volker Lindenstruth, Chair of HPC Architecture at the Goethe University Frankfurt amd MainLearn more Sandia National Laboratories “We are using several clusters of different size, architecture and complexity, and they are essential tools for our research. We require a cluster management solution that provides the flexibility to accomplish our diverse requirements, spanning from production to research and development.” — James H. Laros III, Principal Member of the Technical Staff and computer scientist at SandiaLearn more University of Houston “I am very impressed with the efficiency achieved with Bright Cluster Manager. Our cluster with 1280 cores was up and running within a few hours, ready for integration into our HPC environment. Now it is continuing to save our system administrators valuable time.” — Professor Lennart Johnsson, Director of the TLC2 and the Advanced Computing Research Laboratory at the University of HoustonLearn more University of Houston“We have tried many different cluster management solutions in the past. We found Bright Cluster Manager to have a well integrated centralized management interface which is powerful and flexible enough to accommodate our specific configuration requirements.” “For example, we like to setup our clusters with specific network configurations. Unlike previously used solutions, with Bright Cluster Manager this was very easy to configure through the intuitive GUI or the powerful command line shell.” — Dr Ioannis Konstantinidis, Research Development Officer at the University of HoustonLearn more University of Houston“The centralized status and health information database simplifies troubleshooting and reduces service disturbances.” — Erik Engquist, Systems Administrator at the University of HoustonLearn more University of Houston“Our cluster with 1280 cores was up and running within a few hours, ready for integration into our HPC environment. Now it is continuing to save our system administrators valuable time.” — Professor Lennart Johnsson, University of HoustonLearn more Technical University of Eindhoven “We have been using Bright Cluster Manager for more than half a year now and can recommend it to anyone who wants a complete and easy-to-use software solution for his HPC cluster.” “Using Bright Cluster Manager is a completely different experience from using the open source cluster management solutions that you can download off the web. Its GUI is very intuitive to use and offers all functionality I need as an administrator on a day-to-day basis.” — Erik Smeets, Systems Administrator at the Technical University of EindhovenCD-adapco “Our partnership with ClusterVision and Bright Computing has greatly helped us to setup our new cluster in a short time frame and their support engineers have been responsive and helpful.” — Dr Christian Fauchier at CD-adapcoLearn more CD-adapco“Bright Cluster Manager is a comprehensive cluster management solution that provides all the functionality that we need here at CD-adapco. Our key applications — STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD — were easy to install and run well on the cluster.” “Bright Cluster Manager has many features that make it easy for us to manage the cluster and allow us to focus on running our CFD and CAE applications.” “For example, the image based provisioning makes it very easy to tailor software images and propagate changes to the compute nodes.” — Philip Jones, Euro IT Director at CD-adapcoLearn more | 
Erik Engquist (left) & Ioannis Konstantinidis from the University of Houston's Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) in front of the Xanadu cluster | |||
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