THE BRIGHT BLOG

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!

Here at Bright, we were delighted to announce, earlier this week, that the University of North Dakota has deployed a host of Bright technology into its supercomputing infrastructure, including Bright Cluster Manager for HPC and Data Science, and Bright OpenStack. 

We are pleased to share the recent podcast between Bright Computing and Dell EMC, listen now on Intersect360’s podcast series, This Week in HPC. 

With the start of 2020 only 3 months away, we’re now in the process of building out plans for the year ahead in order to hit the ground running on January 1st. 

Auto-scaling HPC and Kubernetes

Bright CEO Bill Wagner’s recent blog post “The Convergence of HPC and A.I.” pointed out that creating HPC and Kubernetes silos within a shared HPC infrastructure is more like “coexistence than convergence”. The solution I will be highlighting  is Bright Auto-scaler, which automatically resizes HPC and Kubernetes clusters (workload engines) according to workload demand and configured policies. This post describes how to configure Bright Auto-scaler to achieve true convergence of HPC and A.I. through a scenario.

We are so excited to share news that Bright has launched its very own Podcast Series.