Bright Computing Adds Data Aware Scheduling to Cloud Bursting into Amazon EC2 Bright Cluster Manager 6.0 increases productivity and ease of use for extending high performance computing into the cloud. Bright initiates and manages Amazon EC2 resources as part of the onsite HPC c
automatic VPN creation. Furthermore, with Bright Cluster Manager, all instance types are initialized with equal ease, including cluster compute instances that utilize Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) virtualization. The tasks are managed with Bright’s intuitive graphical user interface, making it easy to get the most out of cloud bursting into EC2.
Aside from cloud bursting, Bright Cluster Manager 6.0 is shipping with dozens of enhancements to its system management capabilities:
Integration of openlava, the open source version of LSF, in addition to the existing integration of LSF, SLURM, PBS Professional®, TORQUE/Moab, TORQUE/Maui, Univa Grid Engine, Open Grid Scheduler
Power-saving mode for use with SLURM and PBS Professional to lower operating costs
Full support for CUDA 4.1
Enhancements to automatic failover capabilities
JSON based API in addition to the existing SOAP API, for ease of JavaScript integration
Support for Mellanox and QLogic OFED stacks
Booting over IB added for QLogic
Head node installation on existing Linux installations, in addition to standard bare-metal installation
Dozens of other enhancements
“In building Bright 6.0, we listened closely to what our customers and prospects needed to benefit from cloud computing,” said Martijn de Vries, CTO of Bright Computing. “They wanted to access cloud resources from their existing clusters, and cluster management solution— not as a separate entity. They wanted it to be straightforward— no learning curve, no process changes. They wanted to solve the data management issue— without jumping through hoops every time. They simply wanted to extend their local clusters, as needed, without becoming EC2 experts. I believe we have delivered.”
Contact:
Mark Blessing
Bright Computing, Inc
2880 Zanker Road
San Jose, CA USA 95134
+1-781-489-5567
mark.blessing@brightcomputing.com
http://www.brightcomputing.com
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