Bright Computing and CHPC Power Astronomical Research at China’s Purple Mountain Ob

Dec. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- San Jose, California and Shanghai, China – Bright Computing today announced that Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) has selected Bright Cluster Manager® for its high performance computing (HPC) cluster. The observatory is using the supercomputer to study the origins of the solar system, the universe, and life itself. Specifically, Bright will be used to manage the cluster that supports PMO’s research into dark matter, dark energy, and black hole compact objects.  PMO is also the first installation of Bright Cluster Manager by China HPC Technologies Co. Ltd (CHPC), a Bright partner serving the Chinese market.

PMO, also known as the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory, is China’s first modern research institute. Its graduate students are researching a wide range of topics relating to astronomy and physics, and are contributing to the knowledge base of both sciences.

The technology to support this research comes from the combination of CHPC and Bright Cluster Manager. CHPC provides software and services to address the high performance computing, complex data management, and storage needs of scientific, technical and business communities. CHPC’s technology helps users simulate climate changes, accelerate drug discovery, and assist with astrophysics simulations.

“High performance computing is an integral part of PMO’s research. It enables them to study and simulate dark energy, cosmology and high energy astrophysics,” said Daniel Deng, CEO of CHPC. “With Bright Computing software, they are able to more efficiently conduct their research — jobs run more smoothly, the system is better utilized. Bright minimizes the effort required to manage their cluster, allowing them to stay focused on science.”

“Bright Cluster Manager helps us to serve our customers better,” continued Deng. “Bright makes it easy to install and manage clusters, while keeping operating costs down.”

About China HPC Technology Co. Ltd.
CHPC is a leading provider of HPC application solutions, data management and professional IT services. CHPC partners with Bright Computing, Cray, HP, NVIDIA, SGI, TMS and others to meet the most demanding compute needs of its customers. CHPC’s solutions and services are widely used by the scientific, technical and business communities to solve challenging data-intensive computing, complex data management and mission-critical problems. CHPC is located in Shanghai, China. http://www.chpc-tech.com/EN/

About Bright Computing
Bright Computing specializes in management software for clusters, grids and clouds, including compute, storage, Hadoop and database systems. Bright’s fundamental approach and intuitive interface makes cluster management easy, while providing powerful and complete management capabilities for increasing productivity. Bright Cluster Manager is the solution of choice for many research institutes, universities, and companies across the world, and is used to manage several Top500 installations. Bright Computing has its headquarters in San Jose, California. http://www.brightcomputing.com
Bright Cluster Manager is a trademark of Bright Computing, Inc.

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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.