THE BRIGHT BLOG

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:

A significant change we’ve seen in the HPC landscape is the need to process data and run workloads at the edge. Last year, Bright delivered Bright Edge, which allows organizations to quickly and easily provision and manage servers at edge locations and enabled them to manage multiple locations as a single cluster. The new year brings with it Bright 9.0, which provides the ability to deploy and manage a workload manager (WLM) instance at each location.

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.

At the beginning of each new year, many articles are written about what lies ahead in the coming year, especially in the fast-changing, ever-evolving area of tech.  When the new year is also the beginning of a new decade, the number of articles multiply accordingly.  

The Virtual Bright User Group meets twice a year to hear the latest product roadmap from Bright and to provide feedback into our strategy and product direction.

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!