Bright Computing Explained

Bright Computing, Inc.
Former Name:ClusterVision (spin-off)
Type:Subsidiary
Industry:Enterprise software
Area Served:Global
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Parent:Nvidia

Bright Computing, Inc. is a developer of software for deploying and managing high-performance (HPC) clusters, Kubernetes clusters, and OpenStack private clouds in on-premises data centers as well as in the public cloud.

History

Bright Computing was founded by Matthijs van Leeuwen in 2009, who spun the company out of ClusterVision, which he had co-founded with Alex Ninaber and Arijan Sauer. Alex and Matthijs had worked together at UK’s Compusys, which was one of the first companies to commercially build HPC clusters.[1] [2] They left Compusys in 2002 to start ClusterVision in the Netherlands, after determining there was a growing market for building and managing supercomputer clusters using off-the-shelf hardware components and open source software, tied together with their own customized scripts.[3] ClusterVision also provided delivery and installation support services for HPC clusters at universities and government entities.[4]

In 2004, Martijn de Vries joined ClusterVision and began development of cluster management software. The software was made available to customers in 2008, under the name ClusterVisionOS v4.[5]

In 2009, Bright Computing was spun out of ClusterVision. ClusterVisionOS was renamed Bright Cluster Manager, and van Leeuwen was named Bright Computing’s CEO.[6]

In February 2016, Bright appointed Bill Wagner as chief executive officer. Matthijs van Leeuwen became chief strategy officer, and then left the company and board of directors in 2018.

In January 2022 Bright was acquired by Nvidia. The acquisition followed multiple layoffs during Wagner's tenure. Nvidia cited using Bright's Amsterdam facility as a development center.< ref>Web site: Nvidia acquires Bright Computing . Andy . Patrizio . Network World . 2022-01-12 . IDG Communications, Inc. . [7]

Customers

Early customers included Boeing,[8] Sandia National Laboratories,[9] Virginia Tech,[10] Hewlett Packard,[11] NSA, and Drexel University. Many early customers were introduced through resellers, including SICORP,[12] Cray,[13] Dell,[14] and Advanced HPC.[15]

As of 2019, the company has more than 700 customers, including more than fifty Fortune 500 Companies.[16]

Products and services

Bright Cluster Manager for HPC lets customers deploy and manage complete clusters. It provides management for the hardware, the operating system, the HPC software, and users.[17]

In 2014, the company announced Bright OpenStack, software to deploy, provision, and manage OpenStack-based private cloud infrastructures.[18]

In 2016, Bright started bundling several machine learning frameworks and associated tools and libraries with the product, to make it very easy to get machine learning workload up and running on a Bright cluster.

In December 2018, version 8.2 was released, which introduced support for the ARM64 architecture, edge capabilities to build clusters spread out over many different geographical locations, improved workload accounting & reporting features, as well as many improvements to Bright's integration with Kubernetes.

Bright Cluster Manager software is frequently sold through original equipment manufacturer (OEM) resellers, including Dell and HPE.[19]

Bright Computing was covered by Software Magazine[20] and Yahoo! Finance,[21] among other publications.

Awards

In 2016, Bright Computing was awarded a €1.5M Horizon 2020 SME Instrument grant from the European Commission.[22]

Bright Computing was one of only 33 grant recipients from 960 submitted proposals.[23] In its category only 5 out of 260 grants were awarded.[24]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Matthijs van Leeuwen: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek. www.bloomberg.com. 2016-05-24.
  2. Web site: ClusterVision Spins Off Cluster Management Software Company. 2009-10-07. HPCwire. 2016-05-24.
  3. Web site: ClusterVision - Europe's Leading HPC and Cloud Specialist. ClusterVision. en-GB. 2016-05-24. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160508143551/http://www.clustervision.com/content/management-team. 2016-05-08.
  4. Web site: About the Company - ClusterVision. ClusterVision. en-GB. 2016-05-24.
  5. Web site: Roll your own cluster management system with ClusterVisionOS v4 was: [Beowulf] What services do you run on your cluster nodes?]. holway. andrew. 2008-09-23. 2016-05-24.
  6. Web site: ClusterVision Spins Off Cluster Management Software Company. 2009-10-07. HPCwire. 2016-05-24.
  7. Web site: Leading HPC Software Company Bright Computing Joins NVIDIA . Nvidia . Charlie . Boyle . 2022-01-10 .
  8. Web site: Boeing Consolidates on Bright Cluster Manager - insideHPC. 2011-12-06. insideHPC. en-US. 2016-05-24.
  9. Web site: Sandia National Laboratories Adopts Bright Cluster Manager to Manage Departmental Clusters. Staff. Bright. www.brightcomputing.com. 2016-05-24.
  10. Web site: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Selects Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data to Test New Research Methods. Yahoo Finance. 2016-05-24.
  11. Web site: HPC Accelerates SMBs. Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.. 2007-05-24.
  12. Web site: Bright Computing And SICORP Sign Reseller Agreement - insideHPC. 2010-02-22. insideHPC. en-US. 2016-05-24.
  13. Web site: Partner Relationships Cray. www.cray.com. 2016-05-24.
  14. Web site: Bright Computing Announces Integration with Dell PowerEdge Servers for HPC Environments - The Business Journals. The Business Journals. 2016-05-24.
  15. Web site: Advanced HPC - GPU Computing - GPU Software - Bright Computing. www.advancedhpc.com. 2016-05-24.
  16. Web site: Prime Ventures - Bright Computing. www.primeventures.com. 2016-05-25.
  17. Web site: Bright Computing to Roll Out New Line of Products. HPCwire. en-US. 2016-05-24.
  18. Web site: Bright Computing Announces Bright OpenStack Integration With Talligent Software. HPCwire. en-US. 2016-05-24.
  19. Web site: USA. Computing. Bright. www.brightcomputing.com. 2016-05-24.
  20. Web site: Bright Computing Releases Version 7.2 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data, and Bright OpenStack –. www.softwaremag.com. 2016-05-24.
  21. Web site: Bright Computing to Showcase Bright OpenStack™ and HPC Cluster-as-a-Service (CaaS) at 2016 OpenStack Summit in Austin. Yahoo Finance. 2016-05-24.
  22. Web site: Bright Computing Receives Horizon 2020 Grant From European Commission. HPCwire. en-US. 2016-05-24.
  23. Web site: Horizon 2020's SME Instrument - EASME - European Commission. EASME. 2016-05-24.
  24. Web site: Open Disruptive Innovation - Digital Single Market - European Commission. Digital Single Market. 2016-05-24.
  25. Web site: 2015 HPCwire Awards – Readers' & Editors' Choice - HPCwire. HPCwire. en-US. 2016-05-24.
  26. Web site: Bright Computing Wins Main Software 50 "Highest Growth" Award - The Business Journals. The Business Journals. 2016-05-24.
  27. Web site: Adyen wins Deloitte Technology Fast50 Deloitte Belgium TMT News, press release. Deloitte Belgium. 2016-05-24.
  28. Web site: 2013 Bio-IT World Best of Show Winners Named - Bio-IT World. 2016-05-24.
  29. Web site: 2013 Top 100 North America: Winners — Red Herring. Red Herring. en-US. 2016-05-24.

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