THE BRIGHT BLOG

Yesterday, I sat in on an interesting session about the HPC market by Intersect360. The talk was led by Addison Snell and Christopher Willard and started with an informal discussion about what the audience would like to see in Addison’s Analyst Cross Fire panel taking place Wednesday, June 21 at 2:45 in the Panorama Room.  People want to know how HPC can support real-time data analytics for vertical applications at the Edge, Deep Learning and AI, and what the future looks like for these markets.

These days business owners and managers are quite familiar with “the cloud.” But many don't realize that the cloud actually comes in two distinct flavors.

What most people have in mind when they speak of the cloud is offerings like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, which are set up to host the data and applications of any customer who desires to use that platform. Because they are available to be shared among all comers, and are accessible through the public internet, such services are called the “public cloud.”

Remember the feeling you had when you first learned to drive a car? Everything was new to you. Sure, you knew what a steering wheel was, and what each pedal was for, but you had to learn how much steering input you could safely use at different speeds. Discovering just how much clutch and throttle was needed to get rolling without stalling doesn’t come easily to most people. And I’ll bet figuring out how hard (and how soon) to press the brake pedal as you came up behind another car at a stoplight created a few anxious moments for you and your instructor. But what does this have to do with managing clusters? In many ways, learning how to drive a cluster is much like learning to drive a car. At first, it can seem overwhelming, but once you master the individual skills, you can use them together to create a genuinely exciting experience.

We just got back from the GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, where it was hard to miss the focus on AI applications and deep learning. And that makes sense, given the significant role GPUs are playing in the recent rise in practical applications of deep learning.

Bright Computing will be exhibiting at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2017) being held May 9-11 at the San Jose Convention Center, and we expect it to be an exciting event!

Join Bright Computing, in booth # 591, and over 3,000 companies and 12,500+ attendees for the upcoming Dell EMC World 2017 conference taking place May 8-11 at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Bright Computing is proud to be a sponsor of the annual Cray User Group conference (CUG 2017) being held May 7-11 in Redmond, Washington. CUG brings together expert users for a technical exchange about products and services, and the opportunity for Cray and their partners to learn from the attendees about the features and capabilities that they need.  

HPC has come a long way over the past few years, as was evident through discussions and best practices shared at the first Maryland HPC User Group, which took place last week and drew 50 participants from the Washington DC-Baltimore metro area. 

If you are a system administrator, an engineer, or a developer working with cluster and cloud infrastructure in general, these videos are designed for you.

There are many familiar faces from the HPC world that make the annual trip to the HPC Advisory Council, which takes place each Spring in Switzerland’s Lugano. It’s a popular date in the HPC conference calendar, and the beautiful location is certainly a draw.