Cluster Management

 Cluster Management

Bright Cluster Manager from Bright Computing, is ClusterVision's cluster software stack of choice. It is very user-friendly, it includes everything a user or system administrator would expect, and it includes advanced features for very large and complex clusters. The goals of Bright Cluster Manager are :

• Ease of Use
• Scalability
• Completeness

Ease of Use

Bright Cluster Manager makes Linux clusters of any size really easy to install, manage and use, even with only minimal Linux knowledge.

• Complete installation cluster from bare-metal
• Minimal Linux knowledge required
• Hundreds of useful hardware and software metrics
• Simple, dynamic graphing of selected cluster metrics
• Cluster management from one consistent GUI
  - Software images
  - Cluster users
  - Cluster health
  - Workload management
  - Alarms & security.
• Large collection of pre-installed & pre-configured HPC tools
  - Compilers
  - MPI & mathematical libraries
  - Software development tools
  - Environment modules
• Automatic addition of cluster slave nodes
• Advanced features such as failover and load-balanced node provisioning

Scalability

Bright Cluster Manager was designed to scale to thousands of nodes. It is not dependent on third-party (open source) software which may not be designed for this level of scalability. Many advanced features for handling scalability and complexity are included:

• Management daemon with low CPU overhead
• Multipleload-balancing provisioning nodes
• Synchronized cluster management daemons
• Built-in redundancy
• Diskless nodes

Completeness

Bright Cluster Manager is the most comprehensive cluster management solution available on the market. It includes everything a user or administrator would expect from a professional cluster management software stack. Features include the following:

• Multiple Linux distributions supported
• Intel Cluster Ready compliant
• Cluster management GUI
• Cluster management Shell
• Node provisioning system
• Node identification
• Software update management
• Cluster monitoring
• Automated cluster management
• User management

Read more about Bright Cluster Manager at the Bright Computing website.