▷ Bright Computing and SUSE Collaborate at Supercomputing 2017

Monday November 13, 2017 - San Jose, CA – Bright Computing, a global leader in cluster and cloud infrastructure automation software today shared its plans for co-marketing activity with SUSE during Supercomputing 2017.

Founded in 1992, SUSE was the world's first provider of an Enterprise Linux distribution. Today, a pioneer in open source software, SUSE provides reliable, software-defined infrastructure and application delivery solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. 

The Bright Computing and SUSE partnership was first announced in 2009, enabling customers to deploy, manage, and monitor SUSE Linux Enterprise Server clusters using the Bright interface. Since then, the companies have collaborated many times to provide cutting edge infrastructure management solutions to significant strategic companies around the world, including Boeing in North America and CSIRO in Australia.

At Supercomputing 2017, Bright and SUSE will coordinate a number of co-marketing activities:

• On Tuesday November 14 at 11.30am and on Wednesday November 15 at 11am, Bright's CTO Martijn de Vries will take to the stage at SUSE's booth theater, #1681, to present on "Bright for Deep Learning: Fast, Flexible and Production Ready". The presentation will look at how Bright technology allows organizations to quickly and easily set up an IT infrastructure to host deep learning workload, and how Bright's deep learning solution integrates with existing HPC and GPU technology, and bundles most popular frameworks and libraries, enabling organizations to streamline the process of gaining actionable insight from data.
• On Wednesday November 15 at 3.30pm, SUSE's Jay Kruemcke will be speaking in the Bright booth theater, #937, on "SUSE Linux for High Performance Computing: Success Built on Partnership". This presentation will look at the success of SUSE Linux in HPC, how SUSE is responding to the changes in the HPC community, and how partners such as Bright Computing are able to build on the open source infrastructure provided by SUSE to deliver leading-edge HPC solutions.

Lee Carter, VP Worldwide Alliances at Bright Computing, commented; "We have a long and successful partnership with SUSE that serves joint customers across the globe. Bright is delighted to be working together with SUSE at SC17 to share our strong value proposition with a wider audience."

Naji Almahmoud, VP Cloud and Software Alliances, SUSE adds: "Bright Computing’s innovative cluster management solutions combined with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server brings important benefits to enterprise users by enhancing HPC environments and providing a powerful platform today for the AI and machine learning applications of tomorrow.  Our long-standing partnership has resulted in the success of many joint and strategic customers around the world." 

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About Bright Computing

Bright Computing is a leading provider of hardware-agnostic cluster and cloud management software in the world. Bright Cluster Manager™, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data™, and Bright OpenStack™ provide a unified approach to installing, provisioning, configuring, managing, and monitoring HPC clusters, big data clusters, and OpenStack clouds. Bright's products are currently deployed in more than 650 data centers around the world. Bright Computing's customer base includes global academic, governmental, financial, healthcare, manufacturing, oil/gas/energy, and pharmaceutical organizations such as Boeing, Intel, NASA, Stanford University, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Bright partners with Amazon, Cray, Dell, Intel, Nvidia, SGI, and other leading vendors to deliver powerful, integrated solutions for managing advanced IT infrastructure such as high-performance computing clusters, big data clusters, and OpenStack-based private clouds.