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Bright Computing

A New Era in High Performance Computing

Introduction

ASA Computers is now a partner of Bright Computing to offer a Top Linux cluster automation and management software, for HPC and machine learning to the market.

Bright Computing is a global leader in Linux cluster automation and management software, for HPC and machine learning. Bright Cluster Manager™ automates the process of installing, provisioning, configuring, managing, and monitoring clusters for HPC, data analytics and machine learning environments. Bright's products are deployed in data centers around the world for organizations in healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, energy, pharmaceutical, financial, academic, and government. Bright has reseller agreements and technology partnerships with leading enterprise IT providers, including Dell/EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cray, IBM, Intel, Huawei, Fujitsu, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon. www.brightcomputing.com.
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WHY BRIGHT COMPUTING

Built-in expertise

Built-in expertise

Task automation based on more than a decade of real-world use

Integrated Build, Management & Monitoring

Integrated Build, Management & Monitoring

Everything in one package with one interface

Platform Independent

Platform Independent

Mix and match virtually any vendor hardware. Host HPC, machine learning, and analytics apps on the same cluster

Proven

Proven

Thousands of successful, growing installations

Future-proof

Future-proof

A continuous stream of new functionality ensures that our software is always one step ahead of where you're going

Commercial Support

Commercial Support

We've earned a reputation for providing world class support, just ask our clients

Bright Computing Solutions

CLUSTERS FOR EDGE COMPUTING

Edge computing allows a business to place infrastructure in remote locations that lack IT staff to deliver new applications that take advantage of locally generated data to improve operations, services, experiences and products.

Bright Edge is a feature of Bright Cluster Manager that allows organizations to deploy and centrally manage computing resources in distributed locations as a single clustered infrastructure, from a single interface. The distributed computing nodes deployed and managed by Bright Cluster Manager can be imaged to support any workload, re-imaged on the fly to support different workloads when desired, and are monitored to ensure that you always know precisely what's going on. And when you need to add more computing capacity at any location, bring additional nodes online is quick and easy.

Cluster for Hybrid Cloud

CLUSTERS FOR HYBRID CLOUD

Linux clusters deployed on-premise and Linux clusters in the cloud each offer advantages and disadvantages leading many organizations to pursue a hybrid approach that includes both. Building an effective hybrid cluster involves the daunting task of building the on-premise cluster and then enabling that cluster to seamlessly extend to the public cloud for additional resources when needed. Given the latency between on-premise and cloud, the goal should be to have a cluster with resources in your datacenter and in the cloud — each servicing local workloads – yet centrally managed as a single logical entity. Administratively combining these different and disparate environments is incredibly complex and can lead to costly consequences if cloud resources are not provisioned and terminated in a timely manner. Bright software automates the process of building and managing your Linux cluster, and also automates the process of extending your on-premise cluster to the public cloud. After building and deploying your on-premise cluster, a wizard guides you through the process of enabling your cluster to extend to either AWS or Azure for additional resources.

CLUSTERS FOR MACHINE LEARNING

The promise of machine learning is pulling every organization in every industry into the realm of high-performance computing. Many organizations have little or no experience with these systems, and even the most experienced high-performance computing practitioners will tell you that building and managing high-performance Linux clusters is no easy task. With hundreds or thousands of hardware and software elements that must work in unison, spanning compute, networking and storage, the skills, knowledge and experience required to do this is often more than an organization can cope with. Bright Cluster Manager software offers an integrated solution for building and managing machine learning clusters that reduces complexity, accelerates time to value and provides enormous flexibility. Bright Cluster Manager also provides a pre-tested catalog of popular machine learning frameworks and libraries, as well as integration with Jupyter Notebook, to ensure that data scientists can be as productive as possible and not waste time managing their work environment.

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BRIGHT CLUSTER MANAGER

Advanced Cluster Management Made Easy

Bright Cluster Manager lets you administer clusters as a single entity, provisioning the hardware, operating system, and workload manager from a unified interface. This makes it easier to build a reliable cluster. Once your cluster is up and running, the Bright cluster management daemon keeps an eye on virtually every aspect of every node, and reports any problems it detects in the software or the hardware, so that you can take action and keep your cluster healthy. The intuitive Bright management console lets you see and respond to what's going on in your cluster anywhere, anytime.

Features & Benefits

  • Installation Wizard - Install everything you need, including your chosen distribution of Linux, workload manager, libraries, and more.
  • Node Provisioning - Handle the provisioning of software images to nodes with ease, for clusters of virtually any size and complexity.
  • Graphical User Interface - A single, intuitive interface for all cluster management functionality.
  • Comprehensive Monitoring - Monitor, visualize, and analyze a comprehensive set of hardware and software metrics with ease.
  • GPU Management - Leverage powerful GPU management and monitoring capabilities to gain maximum control.
  • Cloudbursting - Easily create new clusters in the cloud, or add cloud-based resources to your existing clusters on-the-fly.

Deploys Easily

Builds your cluster from bare metal servers or virtual machines (VMs) with nothing to pre-install. Installs everything you need, including HPC workload managers, Kubernetes, Spark and Deep Learning libraries on your chosen distribution of Linux—Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, or Ubuntu

Automates and Pre-Checks Everything

Automatically sets up networking, user directories, DNS and firewalls, then runs automated tests to ensure that everything works properly

Supports Mixed Environments

Simplifies management of multiple-architecture and multipleOS clusters by combining different types of servers, architectures, and operating systems in the same cluster

Provides Comprehensive Monitoring

Monitors, visualizes, and analyzes a comprehensive set of hardware, software, and job-based metrics using workload accounting and reporting features

Integrates with the Cloud

Automatically provisions additional resources from AWS, Azure and Open Stack based clouds when needed

Manages Accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, IPUs)

Tracks and reports status and utilization of accelerators on a per-job basis to ensure efficient utilization by end users

Optimizes Use of Cluster Resources

Ensures resources are allocated to applications according to demand and based on policies you define.

Supports Containers

Provides the prerequisite underlying cluster for running Kubernetes, Docker and Singularity, and manages these packages through the Bright management interface

Includes Two Powerful User Interfaces

Provides two user interfaces so you can choose to provision, monitor, and manage your clusters with a traditional command line interface or the Bright View web-based graphical user interface

Easily Build and Manage Clusters for HPC, Deep Learning, Edge Computing, and More

Bright Cluster Manager lets you quickly build complete clusters from bare metal in minutes and manage them effectively. Bright combines provisioning, monitoring and change management facilities on a single tool that spans the entire lifecycle of your cluster, allowing administrators to provide better support to end users and your business

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Manage your entire cluster with Bright Cluster Manager.

Quickly Deploy a Cluster for HPC, Deep Learning, or Edge Computing

When you need to get a cluster up and running, don't waste time cobbling together a solution from disparate open source tools. Bright software comes with everything you need to set up a complete cluster from bare metal and manage it with a powerful user interface. Whether your cluster is on-premises or in the cloud, Bright is the right choice for all your clustered infrastructure projects.

Dynamic Clusters with In-depth Accounting and Reporting

Bright's dynamic cloud provisioning capability enables you to build an entire cluster in the cloud or expand your physical cluster into the cloud for extra capacity. Bright can provision compute resources in Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure automatically and on-demand. With Workload Accounting and Reporting, you can isolate resource utilization by project and limit the visibility of resource usage to the owner of each project

Manage Edge Computing Infrastructure

The Bright Edge feature in Bright Cluster Manager allows you to deploy, manage and monitor geographically distributed cluster resources, including edge compute servers located in remote areas that lack skilled IT resources.

Proven Technology

Bright Computing has been building enterprisegrade cluster management software for more than a decade. Bright Cluster Manager has been successfully deployed in thousands of locations around the globe, providing an unparalleled level of maturity know-how and battle-tested software that you can count on.

Clusters in the Cloud

Bright Cluster Manager can provision and manage clusters that run either on-premises or in a public cloud. You can build an entire cluster in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure from scratch, or extend a physical cluster into the cloud when you need extra capacity. Use Bright's new Auto-Scaling feature to automatically scale HPC queues and Kubernetes applications from pools of both local nodes and cloud nodes to create a highly effective hybrid cloud environment.

Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science

Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science

Deep Learning Infrastructure Management Made Easy

Bright Cluster Manager for Data Science lets you administer data science clusters as a single entity, provisioning the hardware, operating system, big data and deep learning software from a single interface. This makes it easier to build a reliable, clustered data science infrastructure. Once your system is up and running, the Bright cluster management daemon keeps an eye on virtually every aspect of every node, and reports any problems it detects in the software or the hardware so that you can take action and keep your infrastructure healthy. The intuitive Bright management interface makes it easy to see and take action on any issue impacting data science cluster performance.

Features & Benefits

  • Installation Wizard - Install everything you need, including your chosen distribution of Linux, workload manager, libraries, and more.
  • Flexible Configuration - Bright's configuration groups make Spark configuration more flexible than ever
  • Graphical User Interface - A single, intuitive interface for all cluster management functionality.
  • Choice of Machine Learning Libraries and Frameworks - Includes popular machine learning libraries and frameworks such as NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN), Chainer, MXNet, PYTorch, TensorFlow, Theano, OpenCV, XGBoost, and more.
  • Supports Alternate File Systems - Take advantage of Lustre as an alternative to HDFS.
  • Cloud - Easily create new clusters in the cloud, or add cloud-based resources to your existing clusters on-the-fly.

Modern Deep Learning Environment

Provides everything you need to quickly spin up a complete machine learning environment for data scientists that is cluster-ready and easy to manage

Choice of Machine Learning Libraries and Frameworks

Includes the most popular machine learning libraries and frameworks such as NVIDIA cuDNN, CUB, CUDA, TensorRT, Dynet, Fastai, JupyterHub, CCL2, MXNet, pyTorch, Chainer, CNTK, Horovod, Keras, Opencv3, Protobuf3, Torch, Tensorflow, Theano, and XGBoost (see: https://support.brightcomputing.com/ packages-dashboard/).

Scale-out JupyterHub

JupyterHub makes data science easy to use. Bright provides custom JupyterHub spawners that allow notebooks to be scheduled through the HPC scheduler or Kubernetes

Support for NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC)

Makes it easy to use NVIDIA NGC deep learning containers in so many ways—run them in containers, through a batch scheduler, on physical nodes, or in a cloud Enhances job metrics, accounting and reporting functionality making it possible to determine GPU usage on a per-job basis over time

Simple Deployment Process

Installs all the software and creates the necessary configuration files by simply answering a few questions about your cluster and Bright takes care of the rest Builds your new cluster right the first time and every time—on bare metal or in the cloud.

Bright's user interface makes it easy to monitor and manage your data science clusters.

Customizable dashboards help administrators ensure all nodes in a cluster are optimized for the workloads they run.

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Monitor every aspect of your data science cluster at a glance

Simple deployment of deep learning infrastructure

With Bright, you can deploy deep learning environments in minutes. Bright simplifies management of multiple-architecture and multipleOS clusters by combining different types of servers, architectures, and OSes in the same cluster.

Developer-friendly environment

Bright for Data Science provides and installs environment modules that make it easy to dynamically modify the user environment. The software comes with a complete set of tools and libraries for HPC, Deep Learning, and Apache Spark so you will be ready to develop, debug, and deploy your code immediately.

Scalability

Bright makes HPC technology available to machine learning frameworks, allowing deep learning workloads to be spread across multiple machines. Bright's new Auto-Scale feature automatically scales HPC queues and Kubernetes applications from pools of both local nodes and cloud nodes to create a highly effective hybrid cloud environment.

Extended capabilities

Need more capacity? Extend your GPU-enabled instances into the cloud using Bright's cloud bursting capability. Bright also makes it easy to use NVIDIA machine learning containers (NGC) in your own private OpenStack cloud. In addition, Bright OpenStack includes the Stein release of OpenStack and the Nautilus release of Ceph to provide multi-attach for RDB volumes, optional deferred asynchronous volume deletion, bandwidthaware VM scheduling, and more

Bright OpenStack

Bright OpenStack 9.0

Deep Learning Infrastructure Management Made Easy

Bright Computing has been providing management solutions for clustered systems for many years, and we've brought that experience to OpenStack management. Bright lets you administer your private cloud infrastructure as a single entity, provisioning the hardware, operating system, and cloud framework from a single interface. This makes it easier to build a robust private cloud, reliably, with the resources you already have. Once your cloud is up and running, our daemon keeps an eye on virtually every aspect of every node, and reports any problems it detects in the software or the hardware so that you can take action and keep your infrastructure healthy. The Bright management interface lets you see what's going on from top to bottom.

Features & Benefits

  • Simple Deployment - The Bright installation wizard makes it easy. Just answer a few questions and Bright takes care of the rest.
  • Intuitive Management GUI - Cluster Management GUI (CMGUI) is optimized for performing daily OpenStack management operations
  • Configure using Role Assignments - Bright creates configuration files automatically using roles, so you won't have to manage configuration files manually.
  • Integrated Monitoring and Health Checking - Bright monitors the OpenStack software, the servers, the network, and the operating system so you can rest assured your cloud is running as it should.
  • Headache-free Networking Setup - Bright cuts through the complexity of OpenStack networking setup so you can have a working configuration quickly.
  • Manage Storage Using Ceph - Ceph allows you to pool all of your server storage into a reliable redundant storage system. This enables you to scale with ease, and replace hardware without disruption.

Automate Deployment

Simply answer a few questions about the cloud you want to build, and Bright OpenStack takes over from there. In addition to installing all the software you need and creating the necessary configuration files, Bright OpenStack simplifies management of multiple-architecture and multiple-OS clusters by combining different types of servers, architectures, and OSes in the same cluster.

Install on Bare Metal

With Bright, there is nothing to pre-install. You can start with bare metal servers or virtual machines (VMs), and Bright OpenStack will install and configure everything you need.

Configure OpenStack Using Role-based Assignments

Bright OpenStack creates and automatically updates configuration files using Bright roles, so you don't have to manage configuration files manually.

Integrate Monitoring and Health Checking

Bright OpenStack keeps an eye on the OpenStack software, servers, network, and OS, so you know your cloud is running efficiently. In addition, Workload Accounting and Reporting makes it possible to isolate resource utilization by project and limit visibility of resource usage to the owner of the project.

Simplify Networking Setup

Bright cuts through the complexity of OpenStack networking setup so you can have a working configuration on the first try.

Manage Storage Using Ceph

In addition to the Stein release of OpenStack, Bright OpenStack also includes the Nautilus release of Ceph to provide important features such as multi-attach for RDB volumes, optional deferred asynchronous volume deletion, bandwidth-aware VM scheduling, and a new OpenStack placement service.

Bright View is a state-of-the-art user interface that simplifies monitoring and managing your OpenStack cloud.

Customizable dashboards help administrators ensure all nodes in a cluster are optimized for the workloads they run.

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Bright OpenStack is your complete solution for private clouds.

Quick to deploy. Easy to manage.

Bright takes care of all the tricky details when installing and configuring your cloud's operating system, networking, and OpenStack software. Once your cloud is up and running, Bright OpenStack's elegant and easy-to-use interface provides a powerful dashboard to monitor and manage the cloud throughout its lifecycle.

Proven Technology

Bright has been building management software for more than a decade. Our solutions are deployed in thousands of locations around the globe. Why struggle to build out your cloud infrastructure when you can rely on the experience built into Bright software? .

Easy Payment Options

Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure are now integrated with Bright, so usage of Bright in the cloud is billed on an hourly basis and included on the monthly statement from your cloud provider.

Quickly Deploy a Private Cloud

Switching your data center from discrete services to a cloud can help you get the most from your equipment. Bright's complete solution makes it easy to build a orking cloud, optimizing the utilization of the servers in your data center, while also maintaining the service levels your users demand.

Speed Up DevOps

Bright OpenStack gives you the ability to stand up and tear down a cluster in whatever configuration you need, whenever you need it. This advanced yet easy-touse solution puts considerable computing power in the hands of your DevOps team, while eliminating the time-consuming and frustrating task of building clusters the old-fashioned way. Your team can simply decide how many nodes they need, choose the type the VMs to use, select a Linux distribution, and press ENTER. That's all there is to it. Each cluster created using “Cluster on Demand” has its own self-contained instance of Bright Cluster Manager to ensure easy management and monitoring.

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