Open Technologies Partners with Bright Computing to Serve the Russian HPC Market

Aug. 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Moscow, Russia and San Jose, California  — Bright Computing, a leader in cluster management software, announced that Open Technologies, a leading systems integrator in Russia, has become a partner for the Russian HPC market. Providing Bright Cluster Manager® as an integral element of their HPC solutions will enable Open Technologies to offer customers powerful CPU and GPU clusters with a complete, user-friendly operating environment for high performance computing.

"Our partnership agreement with Bright Computing is an important logical step to expand our HPC product portfolio, a key priority for our company,” said Gregory Shevchenko, Commercial Director of Open Technologies. "We are impressed by our experience with Bright, and moreover, by the enthusiastic endorsement of NVIDIA and NextIO, our other HPC business partners. Bright Cluster Manager is comprehensive, efficient, and incredibly easy to use, thanks to its intuitive GUI and powerful cluster management shell."

Open Technologies has developed four main configurations of compact CPU/GPU clusters based on NextIO and NVIDIA technologies, delivering peak performances spanning 4.97 to 19.4 TFlops. Bright Cluster Manager is pre-installed on these systems, enabling customers to unpack their cluster, turn it on, and immediately load HPC applications for use.

“Our customers benefit from fast time-to-compute, minimal learning time, operational efficiencies and maximum system throughput,” added Shevchenko.

Open Technologies is featuring Bright Cluster Manager in its HPC Competence Center in Moscow for demonstration and testing purposes.

About Open Technologies
Established in 1994, Open Technologies is one of the leading Russian IT companies, providing the full lifecycle of system integration services. Products and services span high performance servers, data storage systems and advanced communication technologies. The Company partners with market leaders, including Bright Computing, Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and others. http://www.ot.ru/eng_technologies.html

About Bright Computing
Bright Computing is a specialist in cluster management software for high-performance computing (HPC). Its flagship product — Bright Cluster Manager  — with its intuitive graphical user interface and powerful cluster management shell, makes clusters of any size easy to install, use and manage. Bright's minimal footprint enables HPC systems to be utilized to their maximum potential, from departmental clusters to large-scale systems. Bright Cluster Manager is the management solution of choice for many research institutes, universities, and companies across the world, including several TOP500 installations. Bright Cluster Manager is certified as Intel® Cluster Ready. Bright Computing has its headquarters in San Jose, California. http://www.brightcomputing.com

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