Bright Computing has announced that Bright Cluster Manager is now available through Dell, Inc., as an option for High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC).

Bright Cluster Manager is already used to manage more than 50 Dell HPC installations worldwide, including three TOP500 supercomputing systems. Bright installations on Dell platforms comprise universities (Cambridge, Oxford, University of Houston, City University of New York and others); commercial enterprises (Merck, Saudi Aramco, Genus, CD-adapco and others); and various national laboratories, including the FutureGrid cluster at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Further, Bright Cluster Manager is running on the Dell benchmark clusters, also located at TACC.

"Bright Cluster Manager is a comprehensive cluster management solution that provides all the functionality that we need here at CD-adapco. Our key applications — STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD — were easy to install and run well on the cluster," said Philip Jones, IT Director at CD-adapco. "Bright Cluster Manager has many features that make it easy for us to manage the cluster and allow us to focus on running our CFD and CAE applications. For example, the image based provisioning makes it very easy to tailor software images and propagate changes to the compute nodes."