Bright Cluster Manager Advanced cluster management made easy Dr Matthijs van Leeuwen CEO Bright Computing Mark Corcoran Director of Sales Bright Computing

2 About Bright Computing Bright Computing 1.Develops and supports Bright Cluster Manager™ 2.Sells Bright Cluster Manager through a rapidly growing network of resellers world-wide 3.Dedicated team of software developers and HPC specialists 4.Head office in San Jose, California, European office in The Netherlands 5.Independent spin-out from ClusterVision, Europe’s leading provider of turnkey HPC clusters

3 Customers — Industry

4 Customers — Government

5 Customers — Academic

6 The Commonly Used “Toolkit” Approach  Most cluster management solutions use the “toolkit” approach (Linux distro + tools)  Examples: Most customer in-house solutions & most competing products  Tools typically used: Ganglia, Cacti, Nagios, Cfengine, System Imager, etc.  Issues with the “toolkit” approach:  Tools rarely designed to work together  Tools rarely designed for HPC  Tools rarely designed to scale  Each tool has its own command line interface and GUI  Each tool has its own daemon and database  Roadmap dependent on developers of the tools  Making a collection of unrelated tools work together  Requires a lot of expertise and scripting  Rarely leads to a truly easy-to-use and scalable solution

7 About Bright Cluster Manager  Bright Cluster Manager takes a much more fundamental & integrated approach  Designed and written from the ground up  Single cluster management daemon provides all functionality  Single, central database for configuration and monitoring data  Single CLI and GUI for ALL cluster management functionality  Which makes Bright Cluster Manager …  Extremely easy to use  Extremely scalable  Complete  Flexible

8 CMDaemon Architecture

9 Bright Cluster Manager — Elements  Cluster Management Daemon  Cluster Management Shell  Cluster Management GUI  Linux distribution, with many enhancements  Red Hat & SUSE Enterprise  CentOS & Scientific Linux  Node provisioning system  Workload management system  Sun Grid Engine, Torque/Maui  MOAB, PBS Pro, etc.  HPC user environment  Compilers, libraries, HPC middleware, debuggers, profilers, etc.  NVIDIA CUDA, OpenCL  Intel Cluster Ready  Cluster management & monitoring functionality  Years of HPC expertise & consistent integration of all the above ============================================================================================ Bright Cluster Manager

10 Management Interface Graphical User Interface (GUI)  Offers administrator full cluster control  Standalone desktop application  Manages multiple clusters simultaneously  Runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS X  Built on top of Mozilla XUL engine Command Line Interface (CLI)  All GUI functionality also available through Command Line Interface (CLI)  Interactive and scriptable in batch mode

15 Unique Features  Fundamental, integrated, complete solution  Single GUI and CLI for all cluster management tasks  Very easy to use  Scalable to thousands of nodes  Minimal CPU overhead due to light-weight daemon  Support for redundant head nodes  Image based, incremental provisioning  Support for diskless and InfiniBand-only slave nodes  Support for several Linux distributions  Cluster health checking  Role-based authentication  Zoom-in function for monitoring graphs  Visualization of metrics in Rackview  Graphical parallel shell  Fully graphical installation in 30 minutes

16 Thank you! Matthijs (Matt) van Leeuwen Mark Corcoran