Bright Computing Signs Agreement With Novell to Offer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server With its Bright Cluster Manager Software


SAN JOSE, California, November 9 /PRNewswire/ --     Bright Computing, specialist in cluster management software and services
for high-performance computing (HPC), is pleased to announce that it has
signed an agreement with Novell to offer its Bright Cluster Manager(TM)
(http://www.brightcomputing.com/Bright-Cluster-Manager.php) software bundled
with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell.

As part of the agreement, Bright Computing and Novell will use their
sales and reseller channels to offer the bundle to customers world-wide. The
agreement also involves joint marketing activities and the opportunity to
collaborate on software development for high performance computing (HPC).

Bright Cluster Manager(TM) (
http://www.brightcomputing.com/Bright-Cluster-Manager.php) is a Linux-based
cluster management software solution specifically designed to make HPC
clusters of any size easy to install, use and manage. Its intuitive graphical
user interface offers consistent access to all management and monitoring
functionality for the cluster administrators. Its HPC user environment
provides a comprehensive range of HPC software development tools for the
cluster users.

"Bright Cluster Manager and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are a solid
combination for installing, using and managing high performance compute
clusters," said Holger Dyroff, vice president of business development, Open
Platform Solutions at Novell. "The bundle will strengthen the performance and
stability as well as the ease of use of HPC systems built for industrial,
government and academic organizations of any size."

"With eight of the top ten supercomputers in the world (source:
TOP500.org) relying on its scalability and performance, SUSE Linux Enterprise
is a proven operating system for high performance computing," said Martijn de
Vries, CTO at Bright Computing. "With the new Bright Cluster Manager/SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server bundle, it is now easier than ever to build, use and
manage HPC clusters based on SUSE Linux Enterprise."

The new Bright Cluster Manager/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server bundle is
available from Bright Computing and its resellers. Bright Computing will be
demonstrating Bright Cluster Manager at the Supercomputing 2009 conference in
Portland, Oregon, on 17/18/19 November 2009 (booth 1347).

Pictures and screenshots of Bright Cluster Manager(TM):

http://www.BrightComputing.com/Newsroom.php



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