Today
Bright Computing announced that Oldenburg University in Germany has once again
chosen to renew its license agreement with Bright Computing.
Oldenburg
first became a Bright Computing customer in 2011, choosing Bright Cluster
Manager to administer its small HPC environment. In recent years the Oldenburg
HPC system has grown to a considerable 600-node cluster to provide an
increasing amount of compute power to various departments within the
university. With a small IT team and limited administration resources
available, when it came time to upgrade the university’s IT hardware, the IT
Services team at Oldenburg took the decision to continue using the Bright
infrastructure management technology to overarch the HPC environment.
“There
were three compelling reasons for Oldenburg to choose to reinvest with Bright,”
said Dr. Stefan Harfst, Oldenburg University. “Firstly, Bright helps you to get
your HPC environment up and running very quickly. Secondly, Bright makes it
incredibly easy to manage your HPC environment which takes a lot of pressure of
the IT Services team. Thirdly, Bright is a very robust and reliable, so our
team is free to focus on other tasks.”
During
the evaluation process, Oldenburg considered a number of independent
infrastructure management technologies, as well as some open source software.
However, the IT Services team chose Bright for its superior set of features and
functionality, acknowledging that investing in a tool rather than deploying
freeware was easily justifiable.
Haroon
Ibrahim, Account Director for Oldenburg at Bright Computing, added; “By
Standardising on Bright, Oldenburg is no longer tied to a single hardware
vendor and can now install any hardware it likes. Added to this, Bright will
enable Oldenburg to continue to scale its cluster, and in the future expand
into new areas such as big data.”
