Bright Computing

Bright Computing
Formerly called
 ClusterVision (spin-off)
Private
Industry Enterprise software
Founded 2009
Founder
  • Matthijs van Leeuwen
  • Alex Ninaber
Headquarters
Area served
 Global
Key people
  • Bill Wagner (CEO)
  • Martijn de Vries (CTO)
  • Kristin Hansen (CMO)
  • Bill Griffin (CFO)
Products
  • Bright Cluster Manager for HPC
  • Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data
  • Bright OpenStack
Website brightcomputing.com

Bright Computing, Inc. is the developer of comprehensive software for deploying and managing high-performance (HPC) clusters, big data clusters, and OpenStack in data centers and in the cloud.[1]

History

Bright Computing was founded by Matthijs van Leeuwen in 2009, who spun the company out of ClusterVision, which he had co-founded with Alex Ninaber and Arijan Sauer. Alex and Matthijs had worked together at UK’s Compusys, which was one of the first companies to commercially build HPC clusters.[2][3] They left Compusys in 2002 to start ClusterVision in the Netherlands, after determining there was a growing market for building and managing supercomputer clusters using off-the-shelf hardware components and open source software, tied together with their own customized scripts.[4] ClusterVision also provided delivery and installation support services for HPC clusters at universities and government entities.[5]

In 2004, Martijn de Vries joined ClusterVision and began development of the next-generation cluster management software. The software was initially launched and made available to customers in 2008, under the name ClusterVisionOS v4.[6]

In 2009, after determining that there was a significant market for commercial cluster management software, Bright Computing was spun out of ClusterVision. At that point, ClusterVisionOS was renamed Bright Cluster Manager, and van Leeuwen was named Bright Computing’s CEO.[7]

In 2010, ING Corporate Investments made a $2.5M investment in Bright Computing. In 2014, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) (US), DFJ Esprit (UK), Prime Ventures (NL), and ING Corporate Investments invested $14.5 million in Bright Computing. At that time, Bright Computing and ClusterVision were completely separated.[8]

In February 2016, Bright appointed Bill Wagner as Chief Executive Officer of Bright Computing. Matthijs van Leeuwen now serves as Chief Strategy Officer and board member.[9]

Customers and growth

Early Bright Computing customers include Boeing,[10] Sandia National Laboratories,[11] Virginia Tech,[12] Hewlett Packard,[13] NSA, and Drexel University. Many early customers were introduced through resellers, including SICORP,[14] Cray,[15] Dell,[16] Appro, and Advanced HPC.[17]

By 2014, the company had over 400 customers, including more than 20 Fortune 500 Companies.[18]

Products and services

Bright Computing’s flagship product is Bright Cluster Manager for HPC, which lets customers deploy and manage complete clusters over bare metal. It provides single-pane-of-glass management for the hardware, the operating system, the HPC software, and users.[19]

In 2014, Bright Computing introduced Bright Cluster Manager for Apache Hadoop, designed to deploy, monitor, and manage Hadoop clusters.[20] It was later extended to support Apache Spark and other big data applications, and was renamed, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data. It can be used as a complete solution or to manage big data software distributions from leading vendors, including Cloudera and Hortonworks. It also has several features that allow the combination of Big Data and HPC workloads on the same cluster.[21]

In 2014, the company also launched Bright OpenStack, software to deploy, provision, and manage OpenStack-based private cloud infrastructures.[22]

Since their introduction, the Bright Computing products have undergone several major updates. Most recently, in January 2016, Bright launched Version 7.2 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data, and Bright OpenStack. The updates incorporate enhanced support for running containers using Docker, improved integration with Puppet to simplify fine-grained control over individual nodes, and new job-based metrics.[23]

Partnerships

Bright Cluster Manager software solutions are frequently sold through a network of large OEM resellers, including Dell and Cray.[24]

In addition, Bright Computing has established partnerships with many system integrators around the world, which typically develop and deploy turnkey solutions that include both hardware and software.

Technology partners

Media coverage

Bright Computing has been covered by Software Magazine[56] and Yahoo! Finance,[57] among other publications.

Awards

In 2016, Bright Computing was awarded a €1.5M Horizon 2020 SME Instrument grant from the European Commission. The grant will be used for the Bright Beyond HPC program, which involves further development and scaling up of Bright Cluster Manager beyond high-performance computing to include even more advanced functionalities in the areas of big data and cloud computing.[58]

Bright Computing was one of only 33 successful grant recipients from among 960 submitted proposals, which amounts to a 3.4 percent success rate.[59] In its category of “Open Disruptive Innovation,” only 5 out of 260 grants were awarded, a 1.9 percent success rate.[60]

Additional awards

References

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  2. ↑ "Matthijs van Leeuwen: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
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  11. ↑ Staff, Bright. "Sandia National Laboratories Adopts Bright Cluster Manager to Manage Departmental Clusters". www.brightcomputing.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
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