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News ReleaseJanuary 18, 2012Brazil’s UNIVAP taps Scherm, Bright Computing for New Astrophysics and Molecular Physics Cluster
San Jose, California and São Paulo, Brazil — Bright Computing today announced that Instituto de Pesquisa & Desenvolvimento — Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (IP&D-UNIVAP) is running Bright Cluster Manager® on its new high performance computing (HPC) cluster. This system is being used to support astrophysics and molecular physics research at UNIVAP’s São José dos Campos Urbanova campus. The cluster, comprising Intel Xeon® 5660 CPUs and NVIDIA Telsa® GPUs was installed by Bright partner Scherm Brasil. UNIVAP’s Astrophysics department is using its new cluster to simulate the dynamics of colliding galaxies, as well as to test theories of cosmological structure formation. The Molecular Physics department is researching semiconductor nanoparticles, absorption of organic molecules on flat surfaces and simulating the structure and optical properties of plasma membranes. “We were looking for a cluster management solution that would remove the complexity of managing our CPU/GPU cluster,” said Dr. Irapuan Rodrigues, professor of Physics at UNIVAP. “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.” UNIVAP was Scherm Brasil’s first installation of Bright Cluster Manager. Guilherme Friol, Scherm’s CIO, installed, configured and tested the cluster in less than five hours, enabling him to hand-over the cluster to UNIVAP’s scientists the same day he unpacked the components. The next day, Friol installed an HPC cluster for another client, also in less than a day. “Bright is fantastic. It’s the ideal cluster management solution for us, and for our customers,” said Friol. “Bright is intuitive to use and very efficient. We are quickly able to meet all of the needs of our clients, and to provide additional value by minimizing ongoing management costs and effort.” About Scherm BrasilFounded in 2002, Scherm Brasil is the leading supplier of high performance computing in Brazil. The company applies a unique combination of experience in engineering, with an approach based on open standards to significantly increase the return on investment for infrastructure for a wide range of customers. Global organizations use Scherm to solve complex computing challenges, meet the demands of product development, application integration and virtualization, reduce energy consumption and maintaining competitiveness. http://www.scherm.com.br/ About Bright ComputingBright Computing is a specialist in cluster management software and services for high-performance computing (HPC). Its flagship product — Bright Cluster Manager — with its intuitive graphical user interface and powerful cluster management shell, makes clusters of any size easy to install, use and manage, including systems combining Intel/AMD processors with GPGPU technology. Bright's minimal footprint enables HPC systems to be utilized to their maximum potential, from departmental clusters to large-scale systems. Bright Cluster Manager is the management solution of choice for many research institutes, universities, and companies across the world, including several Top500 installations. Bright Cluster Manager is an official Intel Cluster Ready component and fully complies with the Intel® Cluster Ready specification. Pictures and screenshots of Bright Cluster Managerhttp://www.BrightComputing.com/Newsroom.php For more information
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“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. Quote
“Bright is fantastic. It’s the ideal cluster management solution for us, and for our customers.” “Bright is intuitive to use and very efficient. We are quickly able to meet all of the needs of our clients, and to provide additional value by minimizing ongoing management costs and effort.” — Guilherme Friol, CIO at Scherm Quote
“Bright Cluster Manager will enable our customers to be fully operational within hours of installing their ClusterTop systems, significantly reducing their 'time-to-computing' requirement and workload.” “Bright will also greatly reduce the important task of managing their HPC clusters, freeing resources to address their other needs. Our customers will quickly realize the benefits of a powerful management platform with very little system overhead.” — Ilson Schames, Sales Director at Scherm | |||
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