THE BRIGHT BLOG

I was delighted to see the press announcement from Bright last week, regarding a customer of mine, University of Siegen, who has chosen to significantly expand its Bright software footprint to address the increasingly varied and challenging demands of its research staff.

We are excited to be attending Computing Insight UK 2019 (CIUK) this week; arguably the most significant HPC event that takes place in the UK each year.

One of the key things that solidified for me coming out of the Supercomputing 2019 conference in Denver this year is how different high-performance computing infrastructure is going to look in a few years. Here are just a handful of the many chip-related announcements at SC that foreshadow what the future holds:

Bright Computing recently announced the launch of BEACON - the online community for Bright users.  Yeah, I know….it’s about time.  Considering that Bright has an extensive user community in a space that lends itself nicely to collaboration with your peers, and a breadth of users eager to share what they know; it makes sense to have a community forum for the benefit of all.

Thanks for joining us at SC in Denver this week! The booth was buzzing with visitors receiving presentations and demos from our tech team; the annual Beers on Bright was a roaring success; we were delighted to collaborate with NVIDIA at our booth for a demo and drinks party; we gave away countless tees, and had many memorable conversations. There is so much energy in the HPC industry right now, and we feel privileged to be at the center of the excitement. We are also thankful to AWS, Dell, and Suse, for inviting us to present at their booth. Be sure to check out our Facebook page to see our SC19 photo album!

On November 19th at the Supercomputing Conference in Denver, Bright Computing announced a free version of Bright Cluster Manager software for clusters up to 8 nodes, which we’re referring to as “Easy8”.  This is the same award-winning, full-featured Bright product in use by thousands of organizations, with free support provided by Bright’s newly launched “BEACON” user community. 

This week at SC19, Bright announced the latest version of their Bright Cluster Manager software for HPC, OpenStack, and Data Science. With 9.0, Bright is offering deeper public cloud integration, detailed Kubernetes reporting, enhanced edge computing features and broader support for mixed architectures. The combination of these innovative updates simplifies building and managing Linux clusters from edge to cloud to core.

We are rapidly approaching that special time of the year, no I’m not referring to the Holiday Season, but for all us in the HPC market, the big daddy of them all, SC 2019 takes place.  I’m excited that this year, my home state of Colorado will host this amazing event in Denver, where many visitors from around the world can see and experience the beauty of the Rocky Mountains and share in our Western hospitality.  Even more, is all that Bright Computing has planned for this event, and I hope that you will seriously consider making Bright Computing one of your stops and find out all that we have in store. Here is just a sampling of what you can expect:

One of the things I like most about the Bright reseller program is our twice-yearly review.  We take the opportunity to recognize partners who are performing well and reward them for meeting or exceeding their goals by promoting them to a higher tier in the Bright Reseller Program, which unlocks new benefits. 

We couldn’t be happier with the feedback we’ve received since we launched our podcast series last month. This is an excellent way for you to catch the latest High-Performance Computing news, on the move!