ERI Selects Bright Computing to Manage its HPC, Cloud and Big Data Infrastructure
FRANKFURT, Germany, June 20 -- Today, Bright Computing, the leading provider of hardware-agnostic cluster and cloud management software, announced that the Electronics Research Institute (ERI), and Brightskies Technologies, based in Cairo, Egypt have chosen the full suite of Bright technology to manage its HPC, big data and cloud infrastructure.
ERI serves the Egyptian academic community by providing cloud services such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. ERI is becoming a hub for the research community in Egypt, who are able to leverage ERI’s state of the art cloud-based technologies. Scientists can easily access high performance infrastructure and completely customize their execution environment, thus providing the perfect setup for their experiments. The Institute also provides an HPC platform to support research in areas such as weather forecasting, microwave design, photovoltaic applications, and seismic data processing.
ERI has chosen Bright technologies to manage its HPC, cloud and big data infrastructure. The project has been delivered by Brightskies Technologies, who joined the Bright Computing partner programme in October 2015.
Brightskies Technologies has implemented Bright Cluster Manager 7.2 to manage ERI’s HPC environment; Bright OpenStack to provide cloud services such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS; and Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data to manage its Hadoop and big data workloads. Brightskies Technologies is a premier service provider in the areas of Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing, with focus on cluster administration and code modernization services. Brightskies Technologies has also been nominated as one of the top 20 most promising HPC solution providers worldwide.
In the HPC environment, ERI is using a mix of Intel Xeon CPUs and Xeon phi accelerators configured for offload processing, submitting parallel jobs using SLURM job scheduler. Brightskies has provided ERI researchers with code optimization support and training on Intel tools to modernize their codes and maximise use of available resources.
Prof. Dr. Hesham Eldeeb, ERI’s General Manager, commented; “ERI works hard to maintain its position as the leading centre for HPC and cloud academic research in Egypt.
Prof. Dr. Salwa Nassar, ERI’s Cloud Computing and HPC Program Director, added; “The ground-breaking solution from Brightskies, coupled with Bright’s infrastructure management technology, gives scientists in our region a state-of-the-art platform to push the boundaries of high performance computing.”
Dr. Khaled Elamrawi, President of Brightskies Technologies, commented; “Using Bright Computing’s technologies, we were able to showcase how to provision a virtual HPC cluster or big data cluster over cloud as extensions to the existing cluster or on demand as per users’ requests. This was very powerful and clearly addressed the challenges that ERI were facing.”
Lee Carter, VP EMEA at Bright Computing, added; “When customers combine our technologies to manage their hybrid infrastructure from a single pane of glass, the sheer power of Bright really comes to the fore. I’m delighted that Brightskies has delivered this solution and that ERI is benefiting from our holistic management interface.”
About Bright Computing
Bright Computing is the leading independent provider of cluster and cloud management software. Bright Cluster Manager, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data, and Bright OpenStack provide a unified, hardware-agnostic approach to installing, provisioning, configuring, managing, and monitoring HPC clusters, big data clusters, and OpenStack clouds. Bright’s products are currently deployed in more than 500 data centers around the world Bright Computing’s customer base includes global academic, governmental, financial, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and pharmaceutical organizations such as Boeing, NASA, MARIN, Roche, CSIRO, and the Geneva Financial Research Institute. Bright partners with Amazon, Cray, Dell, Intel, Nvidia, SGI, and other leading vendors to deliver powerful, integrated solutions for managing advanced IT infrastructure such as high performance computing clusters, big data clusters, and OpenStack-based private clouds. www.brightcomputing.com
Source: Bright Computing
