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Bright Cluster Manager™

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Bright Standard Includes all standard features for small and medium Linux clusters.

Bright Cluster Manager Features

Based on trusted Linux distributionsEasy installation on small, medium and large clustersIntuitive graphical user interfacePowerful, scriptable command line interfaceManage multiple clusters simultaneouslyIntegrated with workload management systemsComplete development environment for parallel applications with compilers, libraries and debuggersBuilt-in support for GPU computing with CUDA and OpenCL libraries, and GPU monitoring and managementMulti-level node provisioning and image management for unlimited number of images and nodesMonitoring and visualization of many hardware and software metrics, also allowing custom metricsFlexible user and group managementAutomated cluster management based on preemptive actions when metrics exceed thresholdsExtensible cluster health checking mechanismsNative support for redundant head nodesComprehensive documentation

...resulting in higher productivity and lower cost.

Bright Advanced Includes all advanced features for large and complex Linux clusters.

Bright Cluster Manager™ greatly simpli-fies the installation, management and use of HPC clusters. With Bright Cluster Manager, a cluster administrator can in-stall, manage and use multiple clusters simultaneously without the need for expert knowledge of Linux or HPC.

Bright Cluster Manager provides the system admin-istrator with a single system view while offering the user an excellent environment for High Performance Computing. It has been designed and proven to scale to thousands of nodes, and to run on mission-critical, production HPC clusters. Bright Cluster Manager has also been designed to interoperate with common Grid technologies and application APIs, and is compliant with the Intel® Cluster Ready specification, which en-sures compatibility with a wide range of Intel Cluster Ready applications.

Bright Cluster Manager™ — Linux-Based Cluster

Management Software

Bright Cluster Manager has been installed on hundreds of clusters, including some of the larg-est and most complex clusters in the world, and several TOP500 systems. Bright Cluster Man-ager is available from resellers across the world and is supported on most x86-based hardware brands.

Based on LinuxBright Cluster Manager is based on Linux and is available with a choice of pre-integrated, pre-configured and optimized Linux distributions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Scientific Linux.

Easy to Install and UseBright Cluster Manager is easy to install and use. It provides a single system view for man-aging all hardware and software aspects of the cluster through a single point of control. The graphical user interface (GUI) streamlines the administrative workflow by allowing all common tasks to be performed through one carefully de-signed interface. Furthermore, all tasks and con-figuration settings are also accessible through a scriptable command line interface (CLI).

Bright Cluster Manager can be used to manage multiple clusters simultaneously. This is the default Overview screen for a selected cluster.

When selecting a cluster node in the tree on the left and the Tasks tab on the right, the administrator can execute a number of powerful tasks on that node with only a single mouse click.

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Image Management & ProvisioningBright Cluster Manager includes a sophisticated im-age mangement and provisioning system that allows the cluster administrator to automatically install a fully functional cluster from bare-metal within minutes.

A virtually unlimited number of images can be cre-ated and assigned to as many different groups of nodes as required. Incremental changes to images can be de-ployed to live nodes without the need for a reboot or reinstallation. For large clusters, multiple load-balanc-ing provisioning nodes can be configured on the fly.

MonitoringWith Bright Cluster Manager a comprehensive set of metrics can be monitored, visualized and analyzed. Practically all software and hardware metrics available to the Linux kernel and all metrics available to hardware management interfaces, such as IPMI or iLO, are avail-able. Custom metrics can also be defined.

Examples include CPU and GPU temperatures, fan speeds, SMART information, system load, memory us-age, network statistics, available disk space and work-load management statistics.

Automated Cluster ManagementAutomated cluster management takes preemptive ac-tions when set system thresholds are exceeded. Sys-tem thresholds can be configured on any of the avail-able metrics.

Standard actions include logging health state mes-sages, sending emails, powering up or down nodes, or running custom scripts. This system is highly configurable and easily adaptable using the cluster management GUI with built-in configuration wizard.

The cluster man-agement automa-

tion wizard guides the cluster admin-

istrator through the steps of selecting

a metric, threshold and action.

Cluster metrics, such as GPU and

CPU temperatures, fan speeds and

networks statistics can be visualized by simply dragging and dropping them from

the list on the left into a graphing win-

dow on the right. Multiple metrics can be combined in one

graph and graph layout and colors can be tailored to

your requirements.

User & Administrator ManagementBright Cluster Manager offers a role-based access con-trol mechanism which supports an unlimited number of administrators, whereby privileges can be defined on a per-role basis. All user and administrator management operations can be performed through the GUI or the CLI. An LDAP service is included for user authentication within the cluster. Integration with external LDAP serv-ers is also possible.

Parallel ShellThe parallel shell allows execution of commands and scripts across the cluster as a whole or on easily de-finable groups of nodes. Output from the executed commands is displayed in a convenient way with vari-able levels of verbosity. The parallel shell is available through the GUI and the CLI.

Workload ManagementBright Cluster Manager provides a user-friendly inter-face for the monitoring and configuration of common workload managers such as Grid Engine and Torque/Maui. Various common tasks for manipulating jobs and queues are available to users and administrators.

Cluster SecurityBright Cluster Manager offers a high level of security which can easily be tailored to local requirements. Se-curity features include a firewall, certificate-based au-thentication to the cluster management infrastructure, secure shell access and automated security updates.

HPC Development EnvironmentBright Cluster Manager is not just a cluster manage-ment environment, it also provides a comprehensive HPC development environment for serial and parallel applications.

The environment includes GPU libraries such as CUDA and OpenCL, HPC middleware such as MPI librar-ies, OpenMP, Global Arrays, mathematical libraries and multi-core threading libraries. Development tools such as compilers, debuggers and profilers are also included.

Environment Modules provide convenient mecha-nisms for managing different versions of applications, compilers and libraries simultaneously without creating compatibility conflicts.

Advanced FeaturesBright Cluster Manager is suitable for clusters of sev-eral thousands of nodes and includes many advanced features for large and complex clusters, including:

management daemons with minimal CPU and mem-ory overhead which are synchronized to minimize their potential effect on parallel applications;multiple load-balanced provisioning nodes which allow provisioning to scale to many thousands of nodes;redundant head nodes that can failover from each other in case of failure;extensible cluster health checking mechanisms;centralized BIOS updates and configuration without the need for keyboard or console access;diskless slave nodes;slave node booting over InfiniBand.

Comprehensive DocumentationA comprehensive system administrator manual and user manual are included.

The status of clus-ter nodes, switches and other rack-mounted hardware, as well as one or two metrics can be visualized in the Rackview. A zoom-out option is avail-able for clusters with many racks.

The parallel shell allows for simulta-neous execution of commands or scripts on multiple nodes in the cluster.

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