THE BRIGHT BLOG

We recently announced that the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will be using Bright Cluster Manager to manage the facility’s newest supercomputer, called ‘Expanse’. Bright Cluster Manager will enable Expanse to balance and manage resource diversity across virtually all domains of their science and engineering users, maximizing resource utilization, and increasing workload efficiency for research scientists across the country and beyond.

At a time when many of our customers are asking their employees to work from home in order to minimize spreading the COVID-19 virus, the challenge of maintaining business continuity with a remote workforce is a new endeavor for most organizations.  As such, we thought this would be a good opportunity to remind everyone about a feature in Bright Cluster Manager that makes it possible for cluster administrators to remotely access and manage their systems.

Earlier this week, Bright announced that Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science is now available at no charge as part of the Easy8 program. Easy8 was launched in November of 2019 and is designed to put Bright’s award-winning cluster management software in the hands of every organization working with high-performance Linux clusters.

This week, Bright announced the addition of more than 100 organizations to its client list in 2019. This new clientele list includes companies such as AMD, Caterpillar, Saab, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Samsung, Lockheed Martin, along with 19 government agencies and 28 leading universities.

Bright just announced that Simula Research Laboratory has chosen Bright Cluster Manager to manage its multi architecture, multi-OS high-performance computing (HPC) environment. Established in 2001, Simula Research Laboratory AS was organized to create knowledge about fundamental scientific challenges that are of genuine value to society. Simula has since established eX³, which has become the previously missing national resource for research on exascale computing in Norway.

Waseda University is currently conducting important research at their Yamaji Laboratory on nuclear reactor design and safety analysis cited in this recent case study provided by HPC Tech. Their research encompasses four major themes including:

Thank you so much for the positive feedback we have received for our podcast series. We are glad you agree that this is a great way to receive bite-sized communiques, on the move, from Bright and our valued community of partners and industry friends.

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.

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!

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.