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Bright Cluster Manager — Editions

Bright Cluster Manager™ is available in two editions: Standard and Advanced. You can easily upgrade from the Standard to the Advanced edition as your cluster grows in size and complexity.

Bright Cluster Manager — Standard Edition

The Standard Edition of Bright Cluster Manager includes all features and functionalities required for small and medium size clusters, for example up to 128 nodes. The Standard Edition does not include support for redundant head nodes and load-balanced provisioning nodes.

Bright Cluster Manager — Advanced Edition

The Advanced Edition of Bright Cluster Manager includes all features and functionalities developed for Bright Cluster Manager. The Advanced Edition is suitable for complex clusters of any size. Examples of advanced features are support for redundant head nodes and load-balanced provisioning nodes.

Feature Overview

The table below lists some of the key features of the Bright Cluster Manager editions:

Feature	Standard	Advanced
Choice of Linux distributions
Intel Cluster Ready
Cluster Management GUI for Linux or Windows
Cluster Management Shell
Node Provisioning
Node Identification
Cluster Monitoring
Automated Cluster Management
User Management
Parallel Shell
Workload Management (Queuing Systems)
Cluster Health Care Management (Bright Health)
Cluster Security
Compilers
Debuggers & Profilers
MPI Libraries
Mathematical Libraries
Environment Modules
Multiple Load-Balancing Provisioning Nodes	-
Redundant Failover Head Nodes	-
Suggested Number of Nodes	4—128	129—10,000+
Number of Clusters Managed Simultaneously	1	>1
Standard Support
Premium Support	Optional	Optional