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Bright Cluster Manager is a great product and the only knock is it can
be pretty expensive. The most value/love I've seen for it is in the
enterprise / corporate space where there is nobody who can do real
hands-on HPC support/operations and the reduction in
administrative/operational burden it brings is worth 10x the price tag.
Corporate IT shops that are forced to manage a research/HPC environment
love it. <br>
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Basically it's fantastic in shops where software dollars are easier to
come by than specialist Linux or HPC support staff but the hardcore HPC
snobs are suspicious because Bright does a lot of the knob and feature
fiddling that they are used to doing themselves -- and there will always
be legit and valid disagreement over the 'proper' way to do
deployment, provisioning and configuration management. <br>
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I tell my clients that Bright is legit and it's worth sitting through
their sales pitch / overview presentation to get a sense of what they
offer. After that the decision is up to them. <br>
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My $.02 of course!<br>
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Chris<br>
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Beowulfers.<div>Does anyone have any experience with Bright Cluster
Manager?</div><div>My boss has been looking into it, so I wanted to tap
into the collective HPC consciousness and see</div><div>what people
think about it. </div><div>It appears to do node management, monitoring,
and provisioning, so we would still need a job scheduler like lsf,
slurm,etc, as well. Is that correct?</div><div><br></div><div>If you
have experience with Bright, let me know. Feel free to contact me off
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