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News ReleaseApril 10, 2012Colfax Partners with Bright Computing to Provide Powerful, Manageable Sandy Bridge ClustersEasy to use and manage Intel® Cluster Ready solutions facilitate HPC adoption for small and medium enterprises San Jose, California — Bright Computing today announced a strategic partnership with Colfax International, a leading provider of workstations, servers, clusters, storage and personal supercomputing solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Colfax International will include Bright Cluster Manager® on its new Intel® Xeon® E5 processor-based HPC clusters. This new “Sandy Bridge” processor technology delivers groundbreaking performance for HPC applications. The new Colfax clusters are Intel Cluster Ready certified, meaning that a wide variety of important HPC applications are ready to run without modification or tuning. Bright Cluster Manager is Intel Cluster Ready-compliant, creating a total solution with Colfax that enables users to load and immediately use their applications, without concern for system configuration, provisioning or management issues. "Our partnership with Bright Computing is a key step in expanding our HPC product offerings," said Gautam Shah, CEO of Colfax International. "This partnership provides our customers with powerful, compute-ready HPC systems. Colfax customers can get to work immediately, without the complexity and time-consuming task of setting up and testing their clusters." Shah continued, “More importantly, Bright Cluster Manager’s intuitive user interface enables our customers to easily manage their clusters, without the need for Linux or HPC expertise. They don’t need to be part-time system administrators — they can focus on what they do best: delivering results.” The importance of providing an intuitive, easy-to-use solution cannot be overstated. The shortage of skilled system administrators, and their high cost, has been cited by IDC and others as an impediment to extending the use of HPC into small and mid-size enterprises, or the “Missing Middle” of manufacturing in the US. “Partnering with Colfax International was an easy decision for us,” said Dr Matthijs van Leeuwen, CEO of Bright Computing. “The strength of their product offerings, introduced so quickly after Intel brought out the new line of Xeon processors, demonstrates both the technical acumen of their product teams and their understanding of customer requirements. Colfax, with their clusters running the top manufacturing applications straight out of the box, is well positioned to serve the needs of the ‘Missing Middle’ and other markets." Bright Computing’s close partnership with Intel in developing the Xeon E5-2600 processors was also a factor in Colfax International’s decision to partner with the company. Bright Computing’s developers had the unique privilege of working closely with the Intel “Sandy Bridge” development team to build HPC test clusters. As a result, Bright is tightly tuned to the processors, and is the only cluster management solution listed in the Intel Cluster Ready Reference Recipes. About Colfax InternationalColfax International is a global provider of customized workstations, servers, clusters, storage and personal supercomputing solutions. Founded in 1987, Colfax International is based in Sunnyvale, California and is privately held. 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 informationBright Computing, Inc. |
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“Our partnership with Bright Computing is a key step in expanding our HPC product offerings.” “This partnership provides our customers with powerful, compute-ready HPC systems. Colfax customers can get to work immediately, without the complexity and time-consuming task of setting up and testing their clusters.” “More importantly, Bright Cluster Manager's intuitive user interface enables our customers to easily manage their clusters, without the need for Linux or HPC expertise. They don't need to be part-time system administrators — they can focus on what they do best: delivering results.” — Gautam Shah, CEO at Colfax International | |||
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