Bright Computing announced that SmartCluster has entered into a partnership to resell Bright Cluster Manager as part of its HPC solutions and services portfolio. SmartCluster, located in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, was established in 1994 to deliver customer-specific turnkey systems. In addition to Bright Computing, the company partners with the leading hardware suppliers.

SmartCluster sells Bright Cluster Manager to provide a seamless solution for provisioning, scheduling, monitoring and managing complex Linux clusters. These systems are also cloud-ready; Bright provides cloud bursting into Amazon EC2 as a standard feature. Bright enables system administrators to visualize and manage these cloud-based nodes as if part of the on-premise cluster.

Bright Computing’s international partnerships are active on every inhabited continent, serving a variety of HPC and vertical market segments. In addition, the company partners with the leading hardware and technology vendors: Cisco, Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel and NVIDIA.