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Follow on Google News | Drexel University Chose Advanced HPC, Bright Cluster Manager for its Most Powerful SupercomputerDrexel’s most powerful supercomputer, built by Advanced HPC, runs Bright Cluster Manager — freeing scientists to focus on leading-edge research instead of managing their complex GPU-based system.
By: Bright Computing Astrophysicist Dr. Steve McMillan is the Principal Investigator using the cluster. There are three co-investigators from multiple departments at Drexel: Dr. Cameron Abrams, Chemical and Biological Engineering; The team’s cluster is currently the most powerful compute resource at Drexel University, capable of delivering 176,514 GFLOPS of GPU performance. The system comprises 68,352 NVIDIA GPU cores and 48 TB RAID disk storage. “I am impressed with the capabilities of the Advanced HPC team,” said Dr. McMillan. “They took the time to truly understand our requirements, and designed a system that was even better than our original specifications. We have an incredibly efficient cluster that exceeds our expectations, and has given us more bang for the buck.” Bright Cluster Manager is used for remote provisioning, monitoring and managing the system. Dr. McMillan and his team were amongst the first to use Bright Cluster Manager revision 5.2, with its full support of NVIDIA’s CUDA 4.0 and associated metrics. “Bright Cluster Manager was a good choice for us,” stated Dr. McMillan. “I’m a scientist, not a system manager. The Bright GUI is intuitive and extremely easy to use. I can do everything I need to do on the system remotely — I almost never visit our cluster. I get alerts when attention is required, and am able to hand off much of the overall system management with confidence to an enthusiastic undergraduate.” “From a support perspective, Advanced HPC and Bright are a great team,” added Dr. McMillan. “Initially we experienced a problem with some of our jobs, and they responded immediately. As it turned out, the issue was a driver problem. The Bright people worked directly with NVIDIA to solve it — sparing us the pain and getting us productive again in a timely fashion.” About Advanced HPC, Inc. Advanced HPC is a provider of HPC platforms and Linux clusters. Their product scope spans Linux cluster solutions, high-performance servers and workstations, disk storage products such as Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Direct Attached Storage (DAS), tape backup solutions from external tape drive to enterprise-class libraries, disk-to-disk- 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 Bright Cluster Manager is a trademark of Bright Computing, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. # # # Bright Computing is a specialist in cluster management software and services for high-performance computing (HPC). Its flag-ship product — Bright Cluster Manager — makes clusters of any size easy to install, use and manage. End
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